charles barrow's writing

It's snowing outside. Us Brits get very animated about even a light dusting of snow. Either we rush out into the garden to desperately scrape together enough of the stuff to build an undersized snow person, or we declare a national emergency, and panic buy pasta, and bog roll. Three inches of snow and the trains stop running, a five inch blanket and the electricity supply fails, and we call family to tell them how much we love them before saying our final goodbyes. I submitted a short story for publication, a piece of micro fiction. I just wanted to highlight that fact. It's important that I remind myself that I am achieving things in lockdown, that I'm still moving towards my goals. Just more slowly than hoped because there's an avalanche of snow up to my ankles out there people, give me a break. Photo is the author's own  

 Pleased to share the news that I had a drabble published yesterday at 101words.org Do please have a read, and leave a comment, or Tweet, or share. Many thanks. 'Pain lances through her chest, stealing her breath. Foolish to be exerting herself like this, but damn the doctor’s orders.'  Read More Here

Traditionally, a  drabble  is a piece of fiction that is exactly 100  words long . Thank you Google. I was completely unaware that a drabble was a thing, especially a fiction writing thing. I'd heard of flash-fiction, and micro-fiction to describe short pieces, but not a drabble. Until, that is, I happened upon a Blogger blog, 101fiction, entirely dedicated to the drabble. They run a monthly drabble writing competition - t he prize is publication in their download magazine. They ask for stories of 100 words, and t hey allow only a one word title, hence the 101 of 101fiction, and they set a different theme each month, this month it's Invention . The whole idea intrigued me. I've never tried writing such a short piece of fiction before, and there was something about that title of Invention that was a great writing prompt for me. So, for that past week I've been writing a drabble. I've really enjoyed the process, the constraints that such a small word limit impose...