Let your drabble out! 100 word stories needed.

[Rosen]

Hello,

Some of you may know that Indie Book Bargains has a daily slot for 100 word fiction.

Lynda Wilcox, David Wailing and Ken Magee are among the many authors who have taken part so far.

This slot allows you to show off your writing, win over new readers and link to your UK Author Central page.

To submit one go to our website and you'll find the link under 'For Authors' on the right.

http://www.indie-book-bargains.co.uk/

Rosen

[Patti (baconater)]

Slot. Drabble.

Hehehehehehe

Immature? Moi?

Moi? Where did THAT come from?

Oh yeah. I'm teaching French next week. Now if that's not worth a 100 word nightmare, I mean story, nothing is.

[Darren]

Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "

Moi? Where did THAT come from? "

Miss Piggy I believe.

[Patti (baconater)]

Oink

[Andrew]

I haven't written a drabble for years! But I have a ton of them knocking around somewhere...

How would you feel about Doctor Who drabbles? I wrote dozens back in the late 90s on alt.drwho.creative, and though I can never publish them commercially for copyright reasons, it would be nice to dust them off a bit.

[Rosen]

They sound interesting, but if you can't publish them commercially then I doubt we can either.

[Andrew]

Well, it's that grey fanfiction area really. My understanding is that I could put them up on my blog, or post them here on Goodreads but I couldn't, for example, collect them into an e-book and flog them on Amazon.

[Rosen]

Well, although IBB is zero based, it is commercial so I want to be a bit careful.

[Andrew]

I totally understand - and I'll see if I can write a few original drabbles of a lunchtime. I used to love writing them so it would be good to pick it up again.

[Rosen]

That sounds awesome. Thank you.

[Damien]

I've just submitted another one. This is my second. Expect more.

*edit*

And a third. I like threes. :oD

[Simon (Highwayman)]

Just out of curiousity what are the limitations on writing a Doctor Who story? Do you have to say 'tm' every time you say 'Dr Who'?

[Andrew]

Fan fiction is a really grey area as soon as you share it online - however much you dress it up, you're working with someone else's intellectual property without permission. People defend it on 'fair use' and 'derivative works' grounds, but the reality is that you just have to hope the specific IP owner takes a relaxed view of fan fiction.

In the case of Doctor Who, you can write what you want, of course. You can post it online in various forums (and in my heyday, on Usenet), but most authors tend to take careful pains to include a disclaimer to the effect that "Doctor Who" and its characters are the property of the BBC, that no money is being generated from the story, and that no copyright infringement is intended.

So you can post online as long as you have that disclaimer (or something similar). And fans have also put together 'charity' anthologies of Doctor Who stories - the books are sold and the profits are donated to a charity. The reality of course is that although a lot of money is raised for charity, the main attraction is getting your Doctor Who story in a real book.

I guess basically the only limitation you can't work around is that you can't profit from a Doctor Who story you've written unless it's been licensed by the BBC. And depending on how wary you are of legal action, that might include posting a Doctor Who story on a site where adverts are displayed, for example.

[Rosen]

Hee hee - "'Doctor Who' and its characters are the property of the BBC, that no money is being generated from the story, and that no copyright infringement is intended" could really eat into your 100 words. ;-)

[Andrew]

That's probably why I managed to spank out so many drabbles in the late 90s... ;)

[Rosen]

Hee hee!

[R.J.]

ach, I probably shouldn't but I have .. 100 words with a doberman some colourful flowers and six german Ramms ..

[Marc]

if I could be contentious here, seeing as the novel is now in its 3rd Century, and that there is very little genuinely new under the sun within its form, that we are all dwarves squatting on the shoulders of the giants who preceded us (Dickens, Austen, Hardy, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky et al), therefore we are all ourselves perhaps writers of fan fiction. Paying homage to our literary progenitors.

There, I've said it now...

[Andrew]

That's an argument I've seen, and indeed made, many times. Sadly the very short rebuttal is that Austen's lawyers won't come round and nail your nuts to a table if you try and publish your Lizzie Bennett and Emma Woodhouse crossover lesbian epic of forbidden vampire love on Smashwords.

I was so looking forward to that bag of cashews, but now there's a dirty great nail in them... sigh...

[R.M.F.]

Would they be interested in my 100 words of killer bees attacking Slough?