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What Writing Only and Precisely 100 Words Every Day Can Do For Your Creativity and Language
Inspired by the Drabble, this brevity practice is an effective and playful writing method to get into regularly as a form of journaling or group writing.
3 min readJan 11, 2021
Sundays are my day to write 100 words, and 100 words only, to send to my Power Circle. (More on Power Circles later.) Our 100 words do not need to be contained by the forms of Microfiction/Flash fiction or a Drabble, but they can be.
Our coach, on more than one occasion, has said something along the lines of:
“Poetry, music, and well-written stories help to clean our language the way the eels of the Roman aqueducts cleaned the water.”
Coming up with 100 words to honor the accountability to my fellow Power Circlettes is as grounding as planting my feet and making sure all four corners are balanced. Knowing that I could…
