DrabbleWriMo 2: Fruit

It took *far* longer than it should have done to get this from 99 words to exactly 100, and to find an acceptable alternative to the repeated use of 'dark'. [Edit: not to mention the duplicated phrase 'from time to time'...]

Day 2 prompt: "Fruit". Unfortunately the canon date at this stage is somewhere early in April 1799, which rather limits the fruits available! ( Read more... )

DrabbleWriMo 3: Wound

Well, if I had trouble finding anywhere in the opening chapters to insert a reference to fruit, I certainly wasn't short of potential wounds to exploit -- I think there are five or so alluded to in the first section of the book!
(Looking ahead, however, I'm distinctly apprehensive as to what on earth I'm going to do with the prompt 'umbrella'. Some quick research shows that umbrellas did catch on earlier in Paris than in London, so they wouldn't be entirely anachronistic at this period. Not well suited to the plot, though.)

I really do need to establish the name of my protagonist at some point, if only to clarify that despite the last drabble this is definitely not Roland speaking :-p

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