"One-hundred (and one) words" ~ for A Little Drabble Do Ya!

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

"Ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one-hundred….damn, one-hundred one!" Napoleon silently cursed.

After having a tiff with Illya about the Russian helping him with his reports Kuryakin walked out of the office on him. Solo had a stack of reports to do, and practically ordered Illya to help him with them...big mistake.

Before heading through the doorway Illya suggested he make his illegible reports less wordy, cutting them down to one hundred words. That would make the secretaries more willing to type them up, as opposed to Napoleon’s reports being the equivalent of “War and Peace.”

“Maybe he could take out an adjective?”

Comments

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Brilliant idea! On both your and Illya's part. And a good read, too.

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

This is too funny :-)
Its also too true. I think we've all used the 'take out an adjective' trick, LOL

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. Just trying to think outside the box. :D

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. Don't you just hate it when you think you've got a good drabble and when you do your word count you want to scream. Just one word over, but which one do you take out when you've eliminated all the adjectives already? lol!

This drabble was 101 words by the way, in honor of Napoleon's dilemma.

[lindafishes8.livejournal.com]

Ha! We've all had to do that at one time or another.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

glad you got a kick out of it!