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FFXIV 2024 Writing Challenge, Day 1: Steer

Lio huffed on his back as he looked up at the sky, the sun beaming over him a stark contrast to the situation he found himself in. It had been a tight turn, loose gravel, he'd taken it too fast, lost control over his ability to steer the damn bike... He let out a long sigh as he winced, sitting up slowly. His hands ran over his head, fingers shaking as they threaded into through his hairline. Pulling them down until they were in view, he ran his eyes quickly over each of gloves. No blood, only sweat. "Thank the Twelve," he murmured to himself. "He'd never forgive me." Continuing his self inspection he noted a tear in his pants on the knee of his left leg, a nasty looking combination of ripped black fabric, a bit of blood, and gravel imbedded into the flesh. Thankfully, nothing broken. Truthfully, he was lucky it hadn't been worse. Stretching out his legs fully in front of him, he leaned back on his palms as he sat there, not trusting himself to stand quite yet - his nerves were shot and his legs would likely be wobbly. He thought about how lucky he was that he hadn't gone off the side of a cliff or into a tree...had it truly been so long since he'd taken his bike out on his own? Mostly he thought about what he had been thinking right as his bike went sliding out from under him. "Haru." It had been like a montage of images playing so quickly, as if his life had been flashing before his very eyes. And that tall drink of water, with the violet eyes, and black hair was in every one of them. Haru behind his bar in his black waistcoat making drinks. Haru looking down at him as he stroked his hair and idly chatted about the house. Haru drinking coffee in the morning and mezcal with him in the evening. Haru with his head on the pillow as the sunlight came through the window. It was hard to imagine that there had been a time in Lio's life where he might have been more reckless, a time where he felt like he had nothing to lose. Such times would become distant memories. Now his whole world was wrapped around the finger of one dear Viera. He huffed out a laugh as he stood, brushing his palms off on his thighs. He wouldn't have it any other way.

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FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge SEPTEMBER 1st - 30th, 2024

Welcome to YEAR 8 of our annual FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge, folks!

Last year we had 7,935 total entries! Which brings us to a total of 50,656 unique written entries over the last 7 years. That is just incredible! And something that I think that we should be super proud of as a creative fan community.

Whether you're new to the FFxivWrite community or a 7-year writing challenge veteran, if you'd like to give perfectionism in your creative writing process a swift kick in the butt, then this challenge was designed for you!

More info is below the cut~

Here’s the gist:

Runs from September 1st - 30th, 2024. During that timeframe:

Visit sea-wolf-coast-to-coast​ once a day at 12:00pm (noon) PDT for the prompt of the day. Convert to your timezone accordingly. All prompts will be one word or brief phrase that you can interpret however you please.

You have 24 hours to write something for that prompt.

Submit the link to your entry post via this Google Form: https://forms.gle/jDWjFKfmeaGnH3PL9

There are no length or skill requirements (short & sweet is fine!).

There will be no 24-hour deadlines for the first week, September 1st - 7th. The deadline will go into effect on September 8th at 11:59am PDT.

Makeup/extra credit days every Sunday.

Every entry posted within its 24-hour deadline will count toward a participation prize raffle at the end.

You can join any time with any prompt #! There’s no need for latecomers to start with prompt #1. Picking up with the most recent prompt is A OK.

If you’re an artist and you would like to volunteer to do a simple black & white illustration as a participation prize at the end of this challenge, you can volunteer here!

RULES & MORE INFO can be found here: https://ffxiv-write.carrd.co/

(( banner art - by @dantinmikannes ))

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