okay so since there's half a month left till nanowrimo (and it's 3 in the morning), I figured I'd give warning that I will be attempting to. keep myself on track in November.
by sharing what I write everyday. yeah. this again. it'll be super rough, and I still gotta finish plotting out my story and I'm running out of time to do that, but. keeping me on my toes, even if I'm weeping through the month. I'll probably tag it "mlc nano '23" or something like that if people want to block the tag.
I swear I will go back to plotting once I finish this time loop oneshot.
Oh, hey, have a snippet! (Just to prove I'm writing. Also the posts in November will likely look like this.)
“A little help!” Fang Duobing called out, because despite them being excellent fighters, attempting to defend themselves while holding back to not kill everyone meant a great deal of concentration. Add to the fact that the multitudes of people were attacking haphazardly and could easily kill each other by accident as well, and he was deflecting to ensure they wouldn’t do that—
“I’m fine,” Li Lianhua said somewhere close to Di Feisheng’s ear, and then turned away to dodge a hoe that had been aimed at his neck. “Help Xiaobao!”
Barring a flare up, Li Lianhua would be able to take care of himself better than Fang Duobing, and thus Di Feisheng followed the instruction and used the flat of his dao to non-lethally hack his way over to the man, all the time keeping an eye on Li Lianhua’s path of retreat.
“Wait, what are you doing here?” Fang Duobing shouted incredulously when Di Feisheng bumped into his back, taking care of the enemies he wouldn’t be able to see. “What about Li Lianhua? We need to look after him!”
“He’ll be fine.” Di Feisheng gritted out, irritated at being passed around like that. If his next strike was heavy enough to break the arm of the villager wielding an axe, he only ignored the pained scream to whirl and strike again at the next person. “You said you needed help!”
“Not if you’re going to leave Li Lianhua alone!”
Honestly, at this point Di Feisheng was tempted to smack Fang Duobing over the head as well if only it wouldn’t make their situation worse. “And how did you expect me to protect him and get to you at the same time, then? Do I look like I can be in two places at once?”
“I was expecting,” Fang Duobing emphasised as he ducked the swing of one man wielding a hefty wooden beam at them, only to stop in mid-momentum and grab onto the man to ensure the hit wouldn’t actually accidentally bludgeon another young man who was coming at them with a kitchen knife, kicking him in the chest instead so that the knife wouldn’t kill the main with the beam. “That the two of you might make your way here! Together!”
“Why didn’t you make your way to us?”
“I have more people attacking me!”
That was as blatant a lie as Li Lianhua would tell, and Di Feisheng spitefully started counting the amount of people just so he could give an exact number later to contradict him.
“Look out!” Li Lianhua’s voice barely carried over the horde of yelling villagers, and Di Feisheng’s attention was drawn back to him in a flash, only to realise that the other man was staring at him and Fang Duobing instead, separated from them by a veritable sea of people, eyes wide.
Look out for what? There was nothing out of the ordinary around them, and—
There was a strange scent in the air, and then he could see white dust falling around them, and within moments he was falling, limbs unresponsive, and then his eyes closed of their own volition before he hit the floor.
—
Di Feisheng woke to the early morning sunshine in the bed of Lotus Tower with an elbow digging into his side, and he moved to shove Fang Duobing off the bed spitefully.
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After Fang Duobing yelled at him so long Di Feisheng found himself grudgingly impressed by his lung capacity (only for Li Lianhua to shout at both of them for waking him up downstairs after Hulijing joined Fang Duobing’s enthusiasm by howling loudly), Di Feisheng found himself with an idea.
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Why do I feel weird, surely it must be some rare disease and not the 4 hours of sleep every night this week and the chaotic eating habits
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One of the fun things about living with someone outside of your family is having them point out quirks you didn't know were quirks
My fiancé told me that it makes him nervous the way I balance things precariously on myself/surfaces/etc and I'm just like
What do you mean you've never sat criss-cross with an open container of liquids perched on your knee??? Isn't that what you're supposed to do???? It's totally fine idk why you're worried
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writing challenges for myself:
write a story without any metaphors
write a story without em-dashes
write a story without describing any scents
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