Title: Dorothea's Writing
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Content notes: Set during WWII.
Summary: Dorothea had always preferred writing novels to diaries. 

Dorothea always wrote; her mother kept stacks of her writing in the attic, from her first one-page stories, through teenage multi-notebook sagas, to single-sentence minimalistic university experiments. Always fiction, though; narrating her life never seemed as much fun as inventing exciting tales. Even when she did borrow from real events - Tom and the Margoletta, Titty dowsing - they could always be made more thrilling, turned into novels rather than diaries or chronicles.
The irony, of course, was that now when her life as a codebreaker would have made a novel without a single embellishment, she was forbidden to write a word.