Flistie Challenge

[albalark]

Okay.  You all have heard me whining about how I can't write fic to save my life, and I'm afraid I'm about to prove it to you in a truly spectacular way, but when I went to look at the prompts for hp_crackdealers , I couldn't help myself.

I have written the start of a story based on this prompt:
PROMPT 26 (CLAIMED ONCE)
Characters and/or Pairings:  Severus Snape

Comments

[therealsnape]

My dear, that start of your story is excellent. See? You can write fic. You can do it brilliantly. I love the voice you give Snape.
It was a well-established fact that an inebriated spy was eventually a dead spy,
Great opening line.

Merlin knew, he was a vicious enough bastard stone sober. Just perfect.

it was as automatic a thing to do as sneering at stupidity utterly Snape.

I should have offered a mild suggestion, and let you write your great fic yourself. But (and this only happens with the very best of stories - I've tested the phenomenon on hundreds of fanfics, so draw your own conclusions, Oh Ebil Scientist) I immediately wanted to write a story of my own based on this. Just couldn't resist it.

So there. Please ignore completely; it's the only thing it's good for. Or, perhaps, scream, "No, you blasted idiot, what happens is ..." and write the rest.

But do go on writing, will you? Oh, and if you need to procrastinate (we authors usually do), hop over to Hoggywarty's Friday drinks. 29 comments on Writer's Insecurity. You'd fit in marvellously.

[albalark]

::listens to chirping crickets::

See? You can write fic.

You, my dear, are apparently the only one who thinks so, but I love you for it. ::smishes::

Or perhaps, scream, "No, you blasted idiot, what happens is ..." and write the rest.

See, that's the problem. I saw the prompt, and something very like what you see here just leapt into my head, but with no idea where to take it from there, or how. I don't know what happens next, what those papers are, or anything else. :-( It's more like a super-prompt than anything . . . I'm generally pretty good at those. :-D

I'm sorry I missed the Friday drinks - I'll certainly be there next Friday! :-)

[therealsnape]

Just for the scientific records:
We now have 2 readers out of 2 who think you're a brilliant author about to happen.

And 3 out of 4 Nutella Cakes who are ... decidedly odd, and given to strange hobbies.

[albalark]

We now have 2 readers out of 2 who think you're a brilliant author about to happen.

You'll notice that the rest of my flist has been tactfully silent, having attended to their mothers when they were told not to say anything if nothing nice could be said. XD

And 3 out of 4 Nutella Cakes who are ... decidedly odd

To be fair, I was pretty odd *before* the Nutella cake. Though I have been increasingly out of my mind since losing my Nutella sobriety. I'm thinking Nutella palmiers next (now you know I've gone completely mental if I'm considering making puff pastry!).