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Sunday Snippet
Jun. 20th, 2021 11:30 amLife continues. School is finally out for the year, and now I just have to kill a few days until I can fly home! I have a covid test on Monday (yay — not) and I’m really just so ready! I always waffle on how soon after the school year I should leave. Some of my coworkers left yesterday evening. We had a half-day for staff. I decided to wait a few days so I could get my covid test and have a bit of time to leisurely clean up my apartment, but I video-chatted with my mom and nephew on Friday, and oh, I wish I had booked an earlier flight! Oh well. Nothing I can do now but wait.
In the meantime, I’ll poke around at cafes, slowly finish packing and cleaning, and work on my Lan Qiren Week fic. It’s a completely indulgent modern slice of life, probably OOC, but whatever. It’s words on the page, and it’s a challenge to write from a character that I don’t fully connect to, despite a lot of similarities I can make between myself and the Venerable Shufu.
Here’s a snippet from the first chapter. I’m using the daily prompts as chapter titles, and today’s chapter is “Father’s Day” (and oh, I am resolutely not thinking about my dad or missing him looooool).
Lan Qiren starts keeping a diary when his sister-in-law falls ill. At first, it is a record of the things he did with his nephews— meals, homework, notes about their general health and well-being. He wants proof, he supposes, something to show her how he has taken care of her boys while she was away. His brother is useless in this, as he is in most things, though Lan Qiren tries not to let the bitterness he feels color the narrative he is drafting. When his— when she returns to her sons, he wants there to be nothing to cause her further grief.
In the meantime, I’ll poke around at cafes, slowly finish packing and cleaning, and work on my Lan Qiren Week fic. It’s a completely indulgent modern slice of life, probably OOC, but whatever. It’s words on the page, and it’s a challenge to write from a character that I don’t fully connect to, despite a lot of similarities I can make between myself and the Venerable Shufu.
Here’s a snippet from the first chapter. I’m using the daily prompts as chapter titles, and today’s chapter is “Father’s Day” (and oh, I am resolutely not thinking about my dad or missing him looooool).
Lan Qiren starts keeping a diary when his sister-in-law falls ill. At first, it is a record of the things he did with his nephews— meals, homework, notes about their general health and well-being. He wants proof, he supposes, something to show her how he has taken care of her boys while she was away. His brother is useless in this, as he is in most things, though Lan Qiren tries not to let the bitterness he feels color the narrative he is drafting. When his— when she returns to her sons, he wants there to be nothing to cause her further grief.
