DrabbleWriMo 28: Leadership
28 November 2021 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeThe end of this series is going to be a bit disjointed, as the beginning was, because I'm just picking out elements to fit the prompts rather than trying to cover the entire plot.
Basically I could either have done a retelling of an existing work in drabbles *or* created a plot from a given series of arbitrary prompts (or just done a stand-alone drabble to match every prompt-word, of course; one of my 'fellow-competitors' has done what amounts to a shopping-list for both her last two entries, a list of ingredients and side-effects for 'medicine' followed by a list of her current tasks and distractions for 'concentration'!)
But trying to achieve both -- while using a book chosen pretty much at random and a prompt-list I hadn't even scanned in advance -- would be an impossible task. Just trying to fill the prompts in plot order so that they form some kind of coherent narrative is a ridiculously challenging extra commitment :-(
(Of course, I do have the advantage that I'm not actually bothering to make anything up :-p)
Basically I could either have done a retelling of an existing work in drabbles *or* created a plot from a given series of arbitrary prompts (or just done a stand-alone drabble to match every prompt-word, of course; one of my 'fellow-competitors' has done what amounts to a shopping-list for both her last two entries, a list of ingredients and side-effects for 'medicine' followed by a list of her current tasks and distractions for 'concentration'!)
But trying to achieve both -- while using a book chosen pretty much at random and a prompt-list I hadn't even scanned in advance -- would be an impossible task. Just trying to fill the prompts in plot order so that they form some kind of coherent narrative is a ridiculously challenging extra commitment :-(
(Of course, I do have the advantage that I'm not actually bothering to make anything up :-p)
Her husband paled at her anguish, but did not relent.
"My darling, my fleur-de-lys — in Brittany and the Vendée they have laid down their lives by the thousand in our cause, and not one of them, even the humblest peasant, asked for mercy. Would you have their leader be the first to do so? 'The Duc de Trélan's heart failed him at the last, and he besought Bonaparte for his life': how would that sound in the streets of Paris... when the King comes back?"
It was as she had longed to see him. But the cost was too much.
