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I know it's the cliche of cliches to look at the greener grass and sigh, but sometimes I do grumble that my creative inclinations bent in a wordy direction rather than a visual arts one. (And don't get me started on all the suckers who somehow manage both! Sheer wizardry.)

While I know there are upsides and downsides to both artforms, it often feels like the way my brain works is better suited to snapshot scenes and moments in time, and they are much easier to manage as a picture than text that requires some degree of beginning, middle, and end. I don't have novels and chapter-fics readily in me. I would love to just doodle. As I said to a friend once, sometimes I just want to capture a smile, not a story, but "sketch pages" aren't really a thing in writing.

I could always start trying to develop the skill now, of course, but I don't have the time or energy to go there in earnest. Brain already very tired most of the time. Brain doesn't want to learn anything else. It's sentence fragments or bust, kiddo.

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[sideways]

Short, punchy ficcers unite! And it's not as though they don't have ample merit - I subscribed to Clarkesworld for a year once and loved it. In fact, I have some authors whose short stories I vastly prefer to their eventual novels; completing one was in their creative grasp, clearly, but I didn't find it the place their creativity best thrived.

100 word drabbles are SUCH a fun challenge!

Edit: Also I should say that I am often in awe of the speed and quality with which you turn out your microfics O: 'Short' doesn't mean 'easy', but you have a knack.