7. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose youāve written and explain why youāre proud of it.
Kylo Ren had been awake for days. Poe knew this as fact, for he had done his best to avoid going anywhere near medbay since the man had been confined there, swearing that he could feel a phantom itch against his mind every time he drew too close. He also knew, by the tight set of the Generalās face, that Renās awakening hadnāt brought with it good tidings.
What he didnāt know, as he left the rec room behind him, was why his feet were currently taking him in Renās direction, why the pulsing anger in his chest suddenly felt so insistent, why it was demanding he see Kylo Ren now after days and days of complete apathy.
(That was a lie. He knew why, even as he thought of his squad, laughing in the rec room, coming up with obscene theories for what lay beneath Kylo Renās robes in order to distract themselves from Onduraās death. He didnāt blame them, he couldnāt, they didnāt know, and Poe wasnāt about to tell them, not in a million years, because telling them would mean facing it, owning up to it, and Ben Organa was none of their damn business. He wasnāt anyoneās damn business.)
He stopped for a moment, one hand flying out to grip the corner of the wall beside him, and he breathed out harshly in an attempt to clear the anger from his mind, making his shoulders relax as a wave of forced calm washed over him. When he felt in control again, the faƧade of a commander draping over him like a shroud, he pushed forward, intent on reaching medbay. He didnāt know why he was going, what he expected to see, but he had toāhe had toā
He had to pause and rid himself of the blaster pistol that hung on his belt, and he knew what it said about him, that he felt he had no choice. (x)
Please help my sons?Ā I donāt know, Iām not sure how to express why Iām proud of this particular piece, I just like it.Ā I do.Ā I cry over Poe a lot.
8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes youāve written and explain why youāre proud of it.
āWonder whatās under the mask,ā Pava mused, pushing strands of hair out of her face as she looked down at Ren. Poe followed her gaze, thinking of wavy dark hair and pale skin and dark eyes, then he removed his own helmet and tucked it under his arm, turning away.
āA man,ā Poe said flatly. āNothing more.ā (x)
I actually have quite a few pieces of dialogue that Iām proud of, but hm, of my recent work Iām quite proud of this one because it just hurts in a way that resonates me. Ā It was also a small nod to KOTOR 2, one of my favourite games of all time. Ā After everything, after all heās done, after all heās become, and after all he once was to Poeā¦ here, unconscious on Onderon, heās just a man, stripped of everything.
14. Whatās the worst writing advice youāve ever come across?
Whenever I see tumblr writing advice on my dash I almost always ignore it because itās generally just.Ā So bad.Ā In general my least favourite ones are the ones that tell people that certain stylistic choices are bad/wrong, if that makes sense?Ā That you should be writing in this one style, in this one structure, which just.Ā Eugh.Ā I mean, I have writing styles that I hate seeing (Tolkienās comes to mindāI know someone who writes just like Tolkien because they love him but I, personally, canāt read their stuff as a result because it doesnāt draw me in), but I feel like everyone should feel free to develop their own writing style because what works for me doesnāt necessarily work for everyone.
There was another thing I remember coming across that I hated, but I canāt remember what it was at this current moment in time.Ā Something about āgood writers should be able to make any AU workā and itās like.Ā But sometimes they just donāt.Ā Ex: I have literally tried for months to see benpoe Hades/Persephone but as someone who actively studies and has written multiple lengthy papers on Hades this is just an AU that I cannot see working if you want to preserve not just the integrity of the characters themselves and the integrity of the myth, if that makes sense?Ā I donāt know.Ā I really have a hard time seeing this AU work.Ā Sometimes being a good writer means knowing when something doesnāt work, at least not for you, and not trying to force it to happen anyway.Ā Iām fairly alone in this particular example, though.Ā Maybe that just makes me the bad writer.Ā [shrugs]Ā Either way, my super lame classicist brain is having a hard time with this one, but that could just be the fact that Iāve literally been buried in Hades shit up to my ears for the past couple of weeks so Iām having trouble bending the myth.
Iām also not as fond of those post those big lists of āwords to use instead of [x]ā without explaining contexts because some of the words Iāve seen listed really just.Ā Shouldnāt have been included next to their supposed synonym.
