Hello everyone!

I came to write a random blog post on my beloved blog website after a long time. Since the year 2024 started, I have been facing several health issues that kept me occupied and overwhelmed all along. That’s why I couldn’t blog this year like the previous years.

I have only written some book reviews that were long pending from the last year and a few other book reviews are yet pending to write and publish on the blog. You know what, when you are suffering from physical or mental illness for a prolonged period, at a point, you start feeling frustrated and lack the motivation to keep going as you lack the spirit to feel energised.

But, if you can keep yourself engaged with something that you love and something that pushes you to test your capability and go beyond your horizon, it helps you stay occupied with something nice and eventually, it helps you to distract your mind from the consistent pain and suffering.

The same happened to me. Thanks to Blogchatter, I kept participating in their challenges, whether it’s their food fest or their reels challenge or write a page a day, I participated for my interest in content creation and also for engaging with my fellow community members that’s always a great fun!

The same happened with the half-marathon challenge. When I came across their next challenge that’s Blogchatter Half-Marathon Challenge where we have to post at least 10 blog posts within the span of 15 days, the first thing that came to my mind was participating in the challenge with a series.

At first, I wanted to write a series of blog posts on mental health awareness, but then, my feeble body didn’t allow me to do this amount of work as I always prefer to write well-researched posts on my blog. Researching for a topic, collecting the topic ideas, gathering information, crafting the post need a lot of work that my current health situation doesn’t allow me to invest this much of efforts as I feel weak and sleepy all the time.

From the prompts shared by Blogchatter, the theme of writing ‘Haiku’ intrigued me and I wanted to try my hand in writing my first set of haiku poetry. But, when I went to learn the art of writing haiku, somehow, I lost my interest in learning and writing haiku poetry. Somehow, I felt it was not the time when I was meant to learn and write haiku. I preferred to wait for the day when haiku will call me!

Then, I wanted to try my hand in writing micro fiction. I wanted to write something short and preferably, sweet. I had written a few Twitter-length micro fiction last year, so I thought of rewriting them to add to my story series.

When I started rewriting them, I absolutely loved weaving those micro tales. While spinning the words to tell a tale in fewer words, an idea came to my mind, and I decided to keep the length of the stories exactly 50 words.

And thus, I wrote my first Dribble! Honestly, the first dribble that I wrote, was not meant to take the shape that it finally turned into. Because I wanted to write something else, but somehow, the story took its shape and how it happened is something beyond my understanding. It just, happened.

Somehow from this experience I have realized, we writers, can’t write anything that we wish to.

We only write what we have to write at that hour. Maybe, we don’t choose the hour and the genre of writing but they choose us to be written.

For the challenge, I wrote ten dribbles and I will be posting them on the coming days on my blog. I am excited to share them with you as it’s my first time trying my hand in writing dribbles and I absolutely loved the experience of writing dribbles.

You can read my dribbles from here.