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Happy (almost) March, Sunnydale After Darkers!

Drabble season is finally upon us as we begin our Short and Spuffy event! Throughout this month, this post will be updated with our daily drabble prompts.

A detailed explanation of the event and its guidelines can be found here.

Quick reminders:

  • You do not have to do every prompt.
  • You do not have to do the prompts in order.
  • Only the drabbles and comments posted between March 1-31 will count toward event awarding.

Without further ado, here are the prompts!

1. Should we break up?
2. Attainathon 
3. Hurt and Comfort
4. The French Quarter
5. A Little Clue
6. Pretty Chains
7. Side By Side 
8. Message to the Moon
9. Making Up
10. Joy
11. The Clock Stops
12. Blue and Green
13. Too Much Damn Drama!
14. Drowning
15. Pain
16. The Lies You Told
17. Tempt Me
18. Sacrifice
19. Too Quiet
20. Kitten
21. I Think I Love You
22. Loving You is Easy
23. Make a Choice
24. Scent
25. Crashing
26. Indirect Sunlight 
27. Boxes On a Shelf
28. Just Let It All Hang Out
29. Lost
30. Angst is My Oxygen

We've decided to add an award for all banner artists. Please note your banner artist (if you have one) in your story notes so that artists can get their reward. And please note that art will not qualify as drabbles for this event. We considered allowing art submissions, but since a picture is worth a thousand words, that didn't seem fair when our writers are limited to 100 wink

We’d like to thank everyone for your continuous event enthusiasm. It should be a very fun and drabble-y month and that is all thanks to you! We’d also like to thank Grief Counseling in particular for creating this incredible event banner. As always, she is too good to us.

Now, commence with your word counting! To the drabble-mobile! Away!



--Chelle, sandy_s, and Dusty on 02/28/23 05:39 pm 13 Comments

Comments

Thank you for posting this early! Waiting until tomorrow wouldn’t have been easy ;) I like this prompt…wheels are starting to turn…

And Grief Counseling! That banner is gorgeous. Love it ❤️

 

 

-- VioletMoon on 02/28/23 05:52 pm

Ooh, this is great! I can't wait to go crazy. 🤣

That banner is GORGEOUS! 😍

-- VeroNyxK84 on 02/28/23 10:17 pm

Gorg gorg bannerrr 😍 and thank you so much once again for this amazing event! Y'all are starting with a BANG. I already have a couple of ideas and now I don't know which to pick haha. 

Ps: THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME ABOUT BANNERS. As usual, I forget about it until the. Last. Possible. Minute, dammit :') 

-- MaggieLaFey on 02/28/23 11:48 pm

I love the banner and this event will probably give you all my first ever posted story errr drabble. I’m stoked and excited!

-- Tessa on 03/01/23 12:49 am

Whoohoo, Teuntje1985! How exciting!

-- sandy_s on 03/01/23 01:24 am

Question: I know the original post said "the word goal for each drabble is exactly 100 words." But I'm going to be pedantic and ask - is it okay for it to be like 95 or 105 words? Or does it have to be exactly 100 to be posted? (I've never tried being so exact with words so want to be clear with the parameters.)

-- bruskiboo on 03/01/23 09:59 am

We won't be disqualifying anyone over a few words, but we want to encourage everyone to strive for exactly 100! 

-- Dusty on 03/01/23 10:12 am

That’s great Dusty, I’m so happy you all are not overly strict on the rules of this event. It can be so discouraging. 

-- Tessa on 03/01/23 10:20 am

You can do 100 words! I believe in y’all!

-- sandy_s on 03/01/23 04:12 pm

Gorg gorg bannerrr 😍 and thank you so much once again for this amazing event! Y'all are starting with a BANG. I already have a couple of ideas and now I don't know which to pick haha. 

Ps: THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME ABOUT BANNERS. As usual, I forget about it until the. Last. Possible. Minute, dammit :') 

-- MaggieLaFey on 03/01/23 06:03 pm

Question: I know the original post said "the word goal for each drabble is exactly 100 words." But I'm going to be pedantic and ask - is it okay for it to be like 95 or 105 words? Or does it have to be exactly 100 to be posted? (I've never tried being so exact with words so want to be clear with the parameters.)

-- bruskiboo on 03/02/23 04:57 pm

Question: I know the original post said "the word goal for each drabble is exactly 100 words." But I'm going to be pedantic and ask - is it okay for it to be like 95 or 105 words? Or does it have to be exactly 100 to be posted? (I've never tried being so exact with words so want to be clear with the parameters.)

-- bruskiboo on 03/02/23 04:59 pm

SORRY! No idea why it kept posting my question, when just refreshed the page. But thanks for answering, Dusty!

-- bruskiboo on 03/02/23 05:00 pm