Snowflake Challenge Day 6

Day 6

In your own space, create your own challenge. What’s something you want to see more people doing in fandom? Is there something you’ve tried that you think other people would enjoy if they gave it a go? Dare your friends to try it out, and have fun with it. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Drabbles!

I dare you all to write drabbles and ficlets galore. Try doing one every day for a month - randoms ones, one that make a single story, ones from a single fandom.

Why?

I feel like they are wonderful lessons in learning the use of words. Too many of us use too many words. We waste words all over the page and sometimes, we can bore our readers to tears with too much description of things not really important to our tale. Only being able to use 100 words helps you learn to pare a story down to its bones. When you can do that successfully then you will be more able to write well and concisely without losing the heart and soul of your story.

I mod a wonderful LJ group called drabblechalleng (the e wouldn't fit) in which we write drabbles to a couple of photo prompts every month. Drop by, if you wish.

Snowflake Challenge Day 7

Day 7

In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


Babylon 5 is a tv show from the 90s that rings as beautiful and true today as it did the first time I ever saw it. It is a story not of good verses evil but of grey - those things that fall in between. This clip is Delenn(Mira Furlan) and John Sheridan(Bruce Boxleitner) and Delenn is telling him that we are all made of star stuff.

"We are star stuff" (Watch on YouTube)

It's a great show with a 5 year arc. Watch it if you can. (I run several B5 groups as well - contact me if you're interested.)

FIC: Drabble: Thinking of Killing... (Babylon 5)

Title: Thinking of Killing…
Fandom: Babylon 5
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: R
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Summary: Na’toth was always thinking of killing someone.

FIC: Drabble: Delenn (Babylon 5)

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Title: Delenn
Fandom: Babylon 5
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Summary: Sinclair tries to make sense of it all.