Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational

[rabidsamfan]

It is time once more for the Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational!

Are you going through the tagset, thinking about your signup, and getting lured down plotbunny holes?

Well, if you are entranced by tiny canons, luscious fandom promos, or letters with prompts that you absolutely adore, and you've got to do something to appease the itty bitty plot bunnies that are nibbling at your ankles, the Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational is back to meet all your "I don't have time or brain enough to do 1000 words, but that idea is still keen" needs.

How does it work?

Write drabbles or drabble series for Yuletide Madness. Proper ones, where the text of each drabble is exactly 100 words, please. Ficlets are fun, but not all ficlets are drabbles in just the same way as not all poems are sonnets. (You can, of course, post a 1000 word tale told in drabbles, where each chapter/bit is exactly 100 words to the main Yuletide collection, if you like. Just be sure that it is eligible to fulfill the main gift rules for that recipient.)

Give them to people.

Add "yumadrin" or "Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational" to the tags.

That's it!

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As of the start of Yuletide 2024 we have created 876 drabbles, the oldest ones from 2013 when the Invitational began, and we'd love to see more this year. These little mini-gifts are a lot of fun to give, and to get, and they're fun to create as well. Check out the tag to see what we mean!

https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Yuletide%20Madness%20Drabble%20Invitational/works

Comments

[desertvixen]

Yes! Let's see if we can get to 1000!

[rabidsamfan]

OOh, that would be very shiny!

[desertvixen]

I think we could do it if we push!

Clarifying

[learoxy]

Hey! So I want to make sure I understand this challenge: essentially, if you write a drabble and gift it as a treat as part of Yuletide, you tag it with 'Yuletide Drabble Invitational' and that is all? This is only my second time doing Yuletide and I didn't see all these amazing lil challenges last year, so I want to make sure lol

Re: Clarifying

[rabidsamfan]

There are two collections each year. You can post to either one. Gifts which are at least 1000 words long go into the main Yuletide collection which opens on December 25th once everyone has a story. Yuletide Madness opens 24 hours later and there is no word count requirement. I missed signups one year, so I ended up writing 100 word drabbles for prompts or letters I found interesting, and I posted the Invitational hoping other people would like to play too. And they have!

Does that help?

Re: Clarifying

[learoxy]

Yes, that makes sense! Thank you, this sounds like a lot of fun :D

[starfishstar]

I'm such a fan of drabbles and of this drabble challenge, and I'm always delighted to see it back again. (Let's get to 1000!!!)

[rabidsamfan]

Yea!