A drabble is technically below 100 words if you go by definition but I don't think AFF is the place to post drabbles below 100 words. 500 words are also hard to post so I usually go somewhere in between 1500 words and below for my own drabble collection, simply because making a story for a oneshot 1500 words or less seems redundant and I would just end up with a million stories that nobody reads anyway. (So my definition of 1500 words or less is mostly a result of AFF as a platform.)

By the definition on google a Drabble is 100 word or less. That's how I've always pictured it. Which is why I believe it's more difficult to write because you need to be able to say everything in a 100 words. A lot of ff writers say 500 words or less. But recently I've seen it as 1000 words or less. And I'm like if 1000 or less is a Drabble what's a oneshot then?

if it's for fanfics no worries, it's literally anything goes. i don't think anyone here would pick a fight with you for putting 1000- into your drabble sections. :)

@thoughtfully: thanks for bringing more light to it! for me, a drabble is 100 words or below, but i've found that by many people (as fanfiction readers), anything under 1000 words is considered a drabble since it feels too short to be a oneshot/short story. this is why i wanna see what people think, if i should post my 500+ stories in my drabbles-collection or as separate oneshots. :)

talking precisely a short story that you would submit to x magazine would be the equivalent of 1000 words. so really technically speaking, a drabble submitted to x magazine would be 100 words tops because it is a drabble (a small token of your thoughts/ideas condensed into a very small paragraph's worth).

but magazines and other etc media are not the only types that carry short stories. basically i think a short-story is the equivalent of a oneshot in creative writing. shouldn't be too long but just short enough. whereas drabbles are literally drabbles, so exclusively a scribble of your ideas and they're short.