1kaday

A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction exactly one hundred words in length, although the term is often misused to indicate a short story of less than 1000 words. The purpose of the drabble is brevity and to test the author’s ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.(Thank you, Wikipedia, fount of all knowledge.)  

It would take 10.24 drabbles to make up onekay, which is kind of a silly thought. And I can’t use the misused form of the word drabble, since it refers to a short work under 1000 words. 

So, to start my first day right, I’m going to introduce a new term into the universal lexicon. The kayble. A kayble is, of course, a short piece of fiction that comes out to exactly 1,024 words. It is sometimes misused to refer to a short piece of fiction that comes out to 1000 words, but we purists shun such people. 

Now, while I do have writing plans for this place (it’d be silly to start something like this without a plan, right? Right.) I’m sometimes prone to fits of writers’ block on a project and need to have backup things to work on to keep the pump flowing. And that, dear readers (if there are any) is where you come in. Give me an idea to develop into a kayble. High concept, low concept, fanfic, pontification, portentious, silly… whatever. Challenge me. Keep the challenge down to… oh, say 80 characters. I’m not going to put any other restrictions on it, but if I’m not familiar enough with a fandom then I’ll ask for something else, and if I don’t understand the challenge I might ask for clarification. I also might just take the challenge and go a completely direction with it, too. Nothing is guaranteed.

Well, what do you expect for free?

Filed under: Kayble Challenge, administrivia