#it was hands down. my favorite scene chb is so fun

[wishecho]

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[dr-nero-is-god]

for the meme: 8, 37, 38

8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

OH man oh man ohhhhh man. hm. what do i pick. hm. let’s think.

just sayin’ i’ve been sitting here for ten minutes and you know what? i’m not sure dialogue is actually one of my strong suits. everything i write is so dang introspective!! so this is definitely a growth point for next time. 

That said, i think if I do have a dialogue-heavy work, it is Dragons? Dragons. and there are some actually fun bits. I’ll pick the ending of Chapter 6, in which Otto and Franz are having a romantic evening under the stars while talking about an ancient legend with their dragons:

That is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard, Nerys grouched. Dragons can’t fly into the stars. They’re too far away and there’s no air.

“Well, they didn’t know that back then,” Otto said. “It’s just meant to be poetic.”

Nerys did not open zher eyes. Poetry is stupid. The stars don’t look like anything, they’re just dots in the sky. And dragons didn’t put anyone up there.

“Does that mean dragons don’t have any constellations?” Franz asked.

Bo growled affirmatively. We do not. We only use the names of the stars to navigate.

“The names of the stars… like constellations?” Otto suggested.

No, Bo said. Every star has a name. Every dragon knows the name of all the stars. It’s how we find our way when we wish to fly long distances to meet up with others of our kind.

“Wait, wait, wait, wait,” Otto said, propping himself up on his elbows and staring at Bo with a challenge on his face. “There’s hundreds of thousands of stars. Millions of stars. And there are stars we can’t even see! You can’t possibly have a name for every single star, much less know them all.”

This is why we don’t tell humans our secrets, Bo said despairingly to Nerys, though both Otto and Franz could hear. They just don’t understand.

You’re telling me.

37. Talk about your current wips.

I am in between big projects, and will be for the time being because I am applying to grad school this month. :P it is going stress if you were wondering!!

But of course I have some:

Dragons? Dragons.— a fic where everything at HIVE is essentially the same except for they are also in Lord of the Rings and Eragon and the Tinkerbell movies and Dealing with Dragons all at the same time. There is no plot and it is fun and I do what I want.

Sing, O Muse...—there is a longer title but I don’t feel like looking it up. CHB AU! I have not worked at it at all since posting the first chapter and we’ll see if I do anything with it.

Like Moths Among the Stars—this is a high school AU fic and it’s very extremely ambitious but i haven’t found the flavor of it AT ALL. 

A Natural Disposition—AU where Wing grows up and becomes one of the cruelest assassins known to man and then in between shots of him hunting down his prey we go through all the psychological damage that occurred to make this awful thing happen!!! it’s fun

38. Talk about a review that made your day.

I mean on the one hand every comment makes my day BUT. some of you have risen to the top and I keep those comments in a folder in my Gmail and then I reread them when I’m sad??? i’m very normal thank you

it was incredibly gratifying to write A Sunday Morning Cigarette for @vulpix-sinistre and then she read it and 1) her comment was good and then 2) she like??? cried??? there is no greater honor or privilege than to make your friends feel very intense things as a surprise

both you, @iwtv, and @ottomalpense left comments that made me SO HAPPY on There Are No Comets Seen and y’all are really good about noticing when I try to write with themes/symbols in mind and so the fact that you noticed the important ones right away was incredibly gratifying

and cream of the crop is @coronaofastar who left just about the loveliest comment a writer could ask for on the last chapter of Nothing Brings Me All Things because it was like a play-by-play of all the feelings and especially since I was nervous about posting that chapter it was extremely encouraging!! and i am so grateful

Anyways i love everyone and think they are very cool and awesome and expressing gratitude is hard but i tried

thanks so much for the ask vela!! :)