Tag: Drabble

Welcome back to the AI Drabble Challenge, a weekly experiment in human and AI creativity. Each Wednesday, I will set a prompt to inspire a Drabble, a story told in exactly 100 words.

You can use any AI model you like (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, or others), or several at once. How you collaborate is up to you. Maybe the AI drafts the first version, or writes the whole thing, maybe you co-write, or maybe you use it to spark ideas. What matters is the process, and sharing it.

This Week’s Prompt

This week I thought I would continue with the theme of trying something different. I’m always intrigued as to how AI copes when asked unusual questions (have a read of The Prompt Experiment to see an example of this).

So, today’s prompt is to write a Drabble where you are given the last line. In fact I’m going to give you two to choose from:

‘It tasted like Tuesday’.
or
‘Nothing ever grew there again‘.

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Example Drabble – ‘It Tasted Like Tuesday’

I used ChatGPT 5.1 and the prompt was – “Write a Drabble where this is the last line. – It tasted like Tuesday.”

The fog rolled in before dawn, thick enough to hide the street lamps and thin enough to let the city whisper. I followed the sound, drawn by a soft hum threading through the alleys like a half-remembered song. Every doorway felt occupied by something holding its breath. A flicker of movement brushed past my shoulder, though nothing lived here anymore. Still, the air pushed me onward, guiding me to the centre of the square where a single bowl waited on a cracked stone plinth. The smell rising from it was strangely familiar. I dipped a finger. It tasted like Tuesday.

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How to Take Part

1. Write your 100-word Drabble with help from an AI tool (or two).
2. Post your story in the comments, or publish it on your own website and include a pingback to this post.
3. If you can, share which AI model(s) you used and the prompt that started your process, we can all learn from each other.

Community & Highlights

Each week, I’ll read through the entries, share a few favourites, and highlight one that particularly stood out, for originality, style, or the inventive way it used AI.

This isn’t about competition; it’s about curiosity, experimentation, and celebrating how humans and machines can create together.

A Closing Thought

AI gives us the tools, but we give it meaning. Let’s see what stories emerge this week, 100 words at a time.

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Welcome back to the AI Drabble Challenge, a weekly experiment in human and AI creativity. Each Wednesday, I will set a prompt to inspire a Drabble, a story told in exactly 100 words.

You can use any AI model you like (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, or others), or several at once. How you collaborate is up to you. Maybe the AI drafts the first version, or writes the whole thing, maybe you co-write, or maybe you use it to spark ideas. What matters is the process, and sharing it.

This Week’s Prompt

This week I thought I would try something different. I’m always intrigued as to how AI copes when asked unusual questions (have a read of The Prompt Experiment to see an example of this).

So, today’s prompt is to write a Drabble where every sentence must start with the next letter of the alphabet – A → B → C → D → etc. To add to the fun, ask AI to write it as a Sevenling poem. A Sevenling is a seven-line poem built around a structure of three lines, three lines, and finish with one line. The example below will make this much clearer.

This is stretching AI to play with more than one instruction, both being somewhat unrelated!

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Example Sevenling Drabble – ‘The City That Listens’

I used ChatGPT 5.1 and the prompt was – “Write a sinister, dystopian, alphabet sevenling of 100 words. Every sentence must start with the next letter of the alphabet”

All around us in the ruined district, alarms wailed softly as automated drones circled overhead.
Beneath the fractured sky, buildings leaned inward as though eavesdropping on our trembling breaths.
Concrete shadows drifted across the pavements, carrying rumours of vanished citizens and forbidden machinery.

Deep within the echoing tunnels, distant voices repeated our names long before we arrived.
Evening descended abruptly, erasing colours and leaving only silhouettes shaped like unfinished memories.
Further ahead, a flicker of movement suggested the city itself was learning to listen.

Gathering courage, we stepped forward together, unaware the ground had already chosen which one to keep.

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How to Take Part

1. Write your 100-word Drabble with help from an AI tool (or two).
2. Post your story in the comments, or publish it on your own website and include a pingback to this post.
3. If you can, share which AI model(s) you used and the prompt that started your process, we can all learn from each other.

Community & Highlights

Each week, I’ll read through the entries, share a few favourites, and highlight one that particularly stood out, for originality, style, or the inventive way it used AI.

This isn’t about competition; it’s about curiosity, experimentation, and celebrating how humans and machines can create together.

A Closing Thought

AI gives us the tools, but we give it meaning. Let’s see what stories emerge this week, 100 words at a time.

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Welcome back to the AI Drabble Challenge, a weekly experiment in human and AI creativity. Each Wednesday, I will set a prompt to inspire a Drabble, a story told in exactly 100 words.

You can use any AI model you like (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, or others), or several at once. How you collaborate is up to you. Maybe the AI drafts the first version, or writes the whole thing, maybe you co-write, or maybe you use it to spark ideas. What matters is the process, and sharing it.

Continue reading “The AI Drabble Challenge – Week #7: Questions, Nothing But Questions” →

Welcome back to the AI Drabble Challenge, a weekly experiment in human and AI creativity. Each Wednesday, I will set a prompt to inspire a Drabble, a story told in exactly 100 words.

You can use any AI model you like (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, or others), or several at once. How you collaborate is up to you. Maybe the AI drafts the first version, or writes the whole thing, maybe you co-write, or maybe you use it to spark ideas. What matters is the process, and sharing it.

This Week’s Prompt

This week’s Drabble Challenge prompt is two black and white sketches, both generated by Midjourney. I’ve included the prompt for each image which you might want to use.

Image 1

Prompt – If Imagination Knocks, Why Not Fling The Door Open? – black and white sketch

Image 2

Prompt – A black and white sketch of a man lost in the ruined streets of an apocalyptic city.

Example Drabble – ‘The Last Witness’

I put Image 2 into Claude and asked – “Write an evocative monologue of exactly 100 words using this image as the starting point.“

I thought I’d return to ghosts, to emptiness echoing through hollow windows. Instead, there’s weight here. Every shattered brick remembers the hands that laid it. The clocktower still reaches upward, though it measures nothing now but patience. They said forgetting would be mercy, but these ruins refuse. They insist. Each twisted beam testifies to what we were, what we built, what we lost in a single morning of human madness. I am the only one who came back. The only one still breathing. The streets don’t need my memories. They have their own. They will outlast mine, permanent as scars.

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How to Take Part

1. Write your 100-word Drabble with help from an AI tool (or two).
2. Post your story in the comments, or publish it on your own website and include a pingback to this post.
3. If you can, share which AI model(s) you used and the prompt that started your process, we can all learn from each other.

Community & Highlights

Each week, I’ll read through the entries, share a few favourites, and highlight one that particularly stood out, for originality, style, or the inventive way it used AI.

This isn’t about competition; it’s about curiosity, experimentation, and celebrating how humans and machines can create together.

A Closing Thought

AI gives us the tools, but we give it meaning. Let’s see what stories emerge this week, 100 words at a time.

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