4. Whatâs your favorite line of dialogue?
Okay this is going to sound terrible but my favorite line of dialogue hasnât been published yet, itâll be, like, fifty chapters from now, I really like the exchange in ch 11 that was
âMaybe I am that stupid,â Alexander says. âBut hey, if you stand for nothing, then what do you fall for?â
âYouâre being rather indecipherable right now,â Aaron says.
Alexander grins. âLike poetry?â
âAllow me to amend that, youâre being rather insufferable right now.â
Alexander props himself up on one elbow. âI could alwaysâŚtalk less. Smile more.â
Aaron has never been so grateful for the dark, and the subsequent fact that Alexander cannot seethe blush rising on his face.
âConvince you with actions rather than words.â
Aaron risks a, âDid that line work on Laurens?â
Thereâs a moment of silence and Aaron is terrified that he has completely misread the situation.Then Alexander answers, âI think the more important question right now is if it worked on you.â
5. What part was hardest to write?
The Constitutional Convention arc, because it involved more research than I thought I would be doing in an attempt to get a plot point through in a way that hopefully people who knew anything about history and period attitudes wouldnât immediately go âthat is such a stretch, wow, so fake,â and it was also when I first had to grapple with dealing with unsavory politics of the time and what is the mixture between wanting to write a story about characters trying to do the right thing, who were based on people that really didnât, instead of just âhave a bunch of feelings about characters trying to navigate relationships with one another.â.Â
11. What do you like best about this fic?
Something must be magical about this question because it has been asked every single time so far. ~My real favorite thing was the friends I made along the way.~ All joking aside, like, a few of the people I talk to and interact most with in my life right now, we got started talking about writing in general but theyâd also let me rant non-stop about my fic and itâs slightly scary to think of, like, would I just not have these people that mean so much to me as a part of my life right now if I hadnât written this goddamn fic, so yeah, the friends that I made along the way.