back on the writing horse

[sweetwatersong]

What do you get when you go rummaging through old be_compromised promptathons? Prompted ideas!

All Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff.

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Comments

[alphaflyer]

I salute your muse. She's been working overtime, and coming up with some beautiful vignettes! :-)

[sweetwatersong]

She's had to take a backseat for long enough now, she's come back with a vengeance. :) And I'm really glad to hear that, because refocusing on moments and short beats is something that I've wanted to work on. My imagination keeps running away with longer pieces and skipping the little things. Hence the drabbles!

[alphaflyer]

There's an art in compressing a complete story into a tiny little pearl. I force myself to do it periodically just to make sure I don't lose the ability to economize in both language and narrative brush strokes. Why I like 5+1s. (One of my Valentine's things was essentially that.)

You may want to post those little gems into a chaptered collection on Ao3, so they don't get lost! :-)

[sweetwatersong]

At one point these were pretty much all I could do - 1k seemed like a mountain! So I wrote many, many drabbles. Now that I'm routinely writing 1k+, your idea of practicing sounds great! :)

I have actually been trying to figure out how to throw all of my drabbles onto AO3. Right now I think the plan is to divide by Clint/Natasha and Others, but maybe a separate Natasha one too? And then probably put several drabbles in each chapter, because posting a single drabble/chapter would take forever. And, and...

I get unreasonably nervous about posting on AO3, so while this has been a project in the works for a while now, I haven't gathered up the courage to actually do it.

[spyforaday]

These are all wonderful! It's amazing to me that such short stories can pack so much emotion. Thank you for sharing these. And thanks for inspiring me to try my hand at a drabble.

[sweetwatersong]

Thank you so much! There's quite a bit that you can't do with a short story - but there's quite a bit that you can. I'm glad these worked for you. :) And yes, come to the drabble side! We have cookies, low word counts, and boundless possibilities.