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[mari4212]

Anyone care to tell me why it is that if I post something for an H_E contest thinking "oh well, at least I'll get five points participation for Hufflepuff", I end up placing well?

We had a drabble contest and I pretty much wrote it at the last minute. To me it felt rather awkward. And it won second place.

H_E voters are weird.

(also, I need to post a critique thread up at bend_the_spoon now.)

Comments

[glacierscout.livejournal.com]

I voted for yours. Too many of the rest were going for the cheap sex jokes.

[cornelis.livejournal.com]

I don't know why you're surprised. You write very sweet, touching little stories. Most drabbles are recycled puns. You actually try to do beautiful things with the language.

[mari4212.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Thank you, sweetie, that means a lot coming from you.

Normally I do try to do beautiful things, but this was one of the drabbles where I felt that I'd failed to make the scene complete in the word limit. It felt rough and unfinished to me, which is why I'm suprised to have done so well.

[cornelis.livejournal.com]

Could you link to it or repost it so I can see?

[mari4212.livejournal.com]

Sure!

Here is the drabble:

Late night drinks out at Rosemerta’s had become a tradition for Minerva, Pomona, and Sinestra. No men, no students, no responsibilities, and a lot of alcohol. Inevitably, after a few rounds of drinks, the conversation turned, well, interesting.

“So there I was, still a cat, just finished with a prowl around the grounds, and Hagrid wanders past me, drunk as a skunk, with an erumpent on a leash! Merlin only knows what would have happened in his next class if I hadn’t caught him.” Minerva was saying, smiling into her drink.

“Tell me you’re joking,” Pomona pleaded.

“I never joke.”

And here is the challenge:
Write a drabble which includes the following elements:
1. at least three characters
2. a beast or animal with magical properties
3. set in a location outside of Hogwarts Castle
4. an appearance by a Hogwarts professor

[cornelis.livejournal.com]

Well, I see what you mean. It isn't a story in and of itself. It works well as a snapshot, though. Sort of a cross-section of a larger story.