#colliding trains of plot

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Just guys getting arrested...

A little piece I did for my fanfiction Colliding Trains of Plot. If you enjoy role-reversal AUs and/or have a deep need to see the Demon Slayer protagonists thrown vastly out of their depth... might want to give it a read?

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NaNo Update Day 23

Ah, Thanksgiving. That wonderful holiday dedicated to the honorable participants of NaNoWriMo, so placed to give them days of total rest outside from writing in the part of the month where they are needed most.

...What? That's not what it's for? Maybe it should be.

Total words: 43265 Daily word count: 1586

First line: Lower Ranks Two and Three have made a return, and much more quickly than usual. Last line: Sorry, Tanjiro. Nezuko. I guess I’m not coming back after all.

I'm debating where to end this chapter. I know I want to get into the main fight (and, no, the last line is not in fact part of the fight—Zenitsu is just being preemptively melodramatic), but I don't know if I want to encompass the whole fight in this chapter or end it on a cliffhanger mid-fight.

Either way, there will only be three chapters of SaFI after this one. The end is in sight!

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I gotta like. Make a list of everything I need to fix in the editing phase of SaFI because as a NaNo novel it's actually going to need an editing phase before I can even think of putting it on AO3

It's going here because that's what I've got to write on that I know I won't lose

Fix the first fight scene so it feels like there's a natural progression of events

Second fight scene can stay but it should be looked at

Third fight scene should probably be completely rewritten

Fourth fight scene is probably good but I need to make sure it's got proper tension and feels realistic

Edit out all references to Kaigaku's crow. He is on his second sparrow, which I forgot until today.

Critical review of the eighth chapter to make sure there's nothing silly that I don't need

I mean silliness review of all the chapters but that one's definitely got something unnecessary in it

Once-over of the chapter after that just in case, because it is also very long (21 pages)

Fix continuity error in the first chapter (or at least make it so it's believably and clearly the result of blood loss)

Either poke at the timeline or find another way to explain how it's implied in CToP that the main trio knew each other for a year when it was really less than half that (the first, if possible, is better)

Decide whether to keep the silly running joke in the fourth chapter, and, if keeping it, whether to make it less obtrusive (the answer is yes)

Make the conversations better if possible

Make Mukago at least 20% cooler if possible

[a bunch of other things for the chapters I haven't yet written, probably]

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NaNo Update Day 27

I don't know how I'm going to resolve this fight scene in a way that injures Zenitsu as much as I'd like but by Jove I will find a way.

Total words: 47960 Words remaining: 2040 Daily word count: 993

First line: First to go would have to be that first form. Last line: He’s… still asleep.

Chapter titles: I’d Give This Chapter a Funny Title, but Zenitsu is Literally Bleeding Out Right Now

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NaNo Update Day 12

I'm getting to a point where I have to pick and choose my end line so I don't spoil anything too severe. Somehow I'm still on this monster of a chapter... shame I can't split it to solve my dual-pacing issues.

Total words: 23264 Daily word count: 1958

First line: That sounded like it made sense. Last line: He probably would have done the same himself, before he’d had his training.

The current chapter has just reached its sixteenth page in the Google Doc. For reference, the longest chapter in CToP is the fourteen-page Oh No, He Woke Up.

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Day 7 of October:

Inoko, Mukago, and Tamiko, Uzui's infiltration team in What Could Have Been. I am no makeup artist (I'd like to make a joke along the lines of "the only thing I know about makeup is [blatantly obvious thing] but I don't even know any blatantly obvious makeup facts) but I certainly would like to think these three look better than whatever Uzui would have done.

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As soon as artfight officially ends I think I'm going to do the first edit pass of Sometimes a Family Is

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NaNo Update Day 30, Part II

Good night, all. Good night, NaNo. Good night, SaFI.

And an especially good night to the one who doesn't know he just abandoned his little brother to a demon :D

Final word count: 53092 % over 50k: 6.18% Daily word count: 3451 Pages in doc: 153 Total no. of 1k30s: Seven, probably (and two more sessions that might have been such had they been properly timed)

Final chapter: Prologue First line: “Have you seen Zenitsu tonight?” Last line: It seemed there had been no point in bringing it, after all.

Best non-finishing day (word count): Nov. 13 (2178) Worst day (mental health): Nov. 20 (a very uphill 1388)

Canonical date of Zenitsu's disappearance: Apr. whatever