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This probably seems kinda random, but during this year's [livejournal.com profile] slythindor100 Last Drabble Writer Standing tournament, I went back through some of the previous fests and read those drabbles too. So I have drabble recs for you from the first LDWS fest in 2010 :)



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As far as I can tell, none of these drabbles are available on AO3. Why not upload them for posterity?




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I usually do a wrap-up rec list after a fest ends, so I figured I should do so for [livejournal.com profile] slythindor100's Last Drabble Writer Standing (LDWS) contest as well :) This was the first year I've voted in the contest, and it was lots of fun. It was so fascinating to see how differently all of the talented authors interpreted the prompts, and so wonderfully surprising to find out who the drabble writers had been each week.


The cool thing is that I ended up voting for a different drabble writer each of the first 5 weeks! (completely unintentionally of course, as the authors were always anonymous until after the votes were tallied) My top picks each week didn't always match the winners of each week (in fact they rarely did :), but for the record, they were:

Week 1: Happy Birthday by [livejournal.com profile] josephinestone
Week 2: Then and Now by [livejournal.com profile] birdsofshore
Week 3: the invasion by [livejournal.com profile] bloodisshrp
Week 4: My Sweetest Downfall by [livejournal.com profile] writcraft (that week's winner)
Week 5: You Are My Greatest Adventure by [livejournal.com profile] capitu (how was this eliminated???)
Week 6: Coming Clean by [livejournal.com profile] birdsofshore
Week 7: Winning Moves by [livejournal.com profile] birdsofshore (that week's winner)
Week 8: Laid Bare by [livejournal.com profile] writcraft

Week 2 was a very strong week. I also loved:
Love tastes like... by [livejournal.com profile] bloodisshrp (that week's winner)
Unspeak, Speak, Oddment, Tweak by [livejournal.com profile] khalulu


Congratulations to [livejournal.com profile] birdsofshore for being the Last Drabble Writer Standing at the end, and to all of the talented authors who contributed to the fest and made it so enjoyable ♥

P.S. I hope that the authors will also feel encouraged to post their drabbles to AO3, in whatever format they happen to prefer :)
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[livejournal.com profile] slythindor100's Last Drabble Writer Standing competition is nearly over, and all this voting on drabbles has made me think Deep Thoughts (TM) about the ideal way to post such things to AO3 (because I think it's great when authors post their works to AO3, and I hope all the LDWS authors will do so after the competition ends!)

There seem to be three schools of thought when it comes to posting LDWS drabbles to AO3, and each has their merits and drawbacks:

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This is the sort of thing I spend way too much time thinking about!

Clearly the third option is the most popular one, and there are good reasons why that would be. However, I can see a strong argument for using the second format instead, as it will lead to far less clutter a more compact listing of fics in your list of works, especially considering that you might not consider drabbles to be of equal importance to novel-length fics.

But of course, it's up to each author to do what they think best. I'm curious if anyone else cares about these things, and what your preferred method would be!

(thanks to [livejournal.com profile] capitu for brainstorming some of the pros and cons with me!)

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