How To Write A Drabble

1) Write the shortest story you think you can.

2) Discover it's 136 words long.

3) Go through the story ruthlessly cutting out any extraneous passage.

4) Discover it's now 124 words long.

5) Restore the 136-word version and add 64 words. Call it a double drabble.

6) If you can't think of 64 new words, add 14 and call it a drabble-and-a-half.

7) Discover you've actually added 15 new words, and there's no grammatical way to remove one.

8) Give up.