Puppy Love
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Pairing: Sesshoumaru + Kagome (platonic)
Rating: K+
Inspiration: "My Innocent"
Based upon:
dokuga_contest Drabble #25 | Elbow
To say the last few weeks of prompts at
dokuga_contest have been challenging, would be an understatement. I thought they couldn't get much harder than last week's ('clock'? really?!), but this one very nearly broke me. I can't say I'm all too happy with the results, but its the only idea I had, and I pared it down to the word count as best I could.
Comedy is a weakness, I freely admit, but hopefully I got somewhere close to the mark I was aiming for with this piece.
Basically, its something of a riff off the piece I wrote for Langus during the drabble meme. Sesshoumaru has come by the village for one of his all-too-infrequent visits, only to be rejected at the door by Rin. She pleads with Jaken to make him go away, claiming she's "all elbows and knees" (meaning, she feels very awkward and self-conscious - didn't we all at that stage? :P). Of course, something is lost in the translation when Jaken tells Sesshoumaru.
Kagome, who had been in the hut all along with Rin, comes out, and Sesshoumaru confronts her...and it's up to her to tell the rather oblivious demon lord just why Rin suddenly doesn't want to see him.
100 words was very tough for this situation, but hopefully the humor is there. As I was posting, I noticed that almost all of the entries this week are also humorous in nature, so I guess all of us had a hard time interpreting the prompt in a different way.
Link to FF.net
Pairing: Sesshoumaru + Kagome (platonic)
Rating: K+
Inspiration: "My Innocent"
Based upon:
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Comedy is a weakness, I freely admit, but hopefully I got somewhere close to the mark I was aiming for with this piece.
Basically, its something of a riff off the piece I wrote for Langus during the drabble meme. Sesshoumaru has come by the village for one of his all-too-infrequent visits, only to be rejected at the door by Rin. She pleads with Jaken to make him go away, claiming she's "all elbows and knees" (meaning, she feels very awkward and self-conscious - didn't we all at that stage? :P). Of course, something is lost in the translation when Jaken tells Sesshoumaru.
Kagome, who had been in the hut all along with Rin, comes out, and Sesshoumaru confronts her...and it's up to her to tell the rather oblivious demon lord just why Rin suddenly doesn't want to see him.
100 words was very tough for this situation, but hopefully the humor is there. As I was posting, I noticed that almost all of the entries this week are also humorous in nature, so I guess all of us had a hard time interpreting the prompt in a different way.
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And what an insane prompt!
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The prompt really is kinda insane, isn't it? :P As I said, I just wonder where my breaking point is going to be, if I managed to dredge up an entry even for this difficult prompt/word limit combination...
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And who comes up with such nutty prompts? Are they getting so many entries they're trying to cut down the competition? Or do they just think they're being
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As far as I know,
I think in this case, the blow came in the combo of the prompt and the severe word limit restriction. There's a lot more you could (feasibly) do with 400 words and such a weird prompt, that is rather impossible to explore in 100 words.
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Good luck on that one!
100 word limit is restrictive, no matter what. I've only written a small handful of those, and that was to her earlier challenges before I got tired of them. But yeah, that was a really weird prompt.
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100 words is a challenge, yes, but with the right prompt it need not be such an arduous task. There have been a handful at this comm with that word limit, and I don't think I've ever struggled so much as I did with this one. I rather dread seeing the next prompt she's going to spring on us, LOL :P
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I remember doing the "perfect kiss" which were a 100, and "perfect prank" which were a hundred. The hardest thing was making them exactly 100 words, but I did manage to do it. But yeah, the weirder the prompt, the harder it is to do anything with it with so few words.