For the writing ask meme: 8, 33, 37 (or pick your favorite if that's too many).
Haha donât worry, I can never blabber enough about my writing!
8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes youâve written and explain why youâre proud of it.
âNo.â Huxâs tone was unapologetic, his lips pressing into a tight line, and he fixed his gaze on Poe: âI wish you could see things my way, even if itâs only for a moment. Youâre trying to save a system, a government that isnât worth saving. The rule of the New Republic has been nothing but chaos, and weâre trying to end that. To bring stability to the galaxy.â
âBy subjugating every planet that doesnât fall in line by force?â Poe scoffed. Then, he shook his head, looking away: âI donât want to fight with you.â
âBut weâre already fighting, arenât we?â Huxâs voice was small, pained: âOutside of this room. The moment we go back to where weâre from, weâre fighting, and not just with words. The moment we leave here, our fights get deadly.â
This is a snippet from the break-up scene in âLines in the Sandâ. Since that fic is set loosely in canon-verse, Hux and Poeâs ideological differences, and the fact that theyâre on different sides of an intergalactic war, are the elephant in the room that has to be adressed by both of them at some point. I wanted to bring across that both of them suffer from this, but without drawing a clear ideological line, since yes, both of them think their side is in the right, and I think I managed that quite well.Â
33. How do you feel about crack?
I love it. Crack ships, crack ideas, crack treated seriously, every form of it. I mean, Iâve written a lot of it. I think that, as a fan and fic writer, youâve got to preserve a sense of humor, otherwise youâll end up taking stuff to seriously, and we all know where that endsâŚ
37. Talk about your current wips.
THEY HAUNT ME. Sitting in my brain and WIP list, whispering âfinish us. You promised!â. Looking at me with sad, disappointed eyes when I come up with another new idea.Â
OK, on to the list of doom. Note that these are only those that have some actual writing done already.
- the SHIELD university AU road trip (SHIELD as in WWE, not the MCU one)
- Ben/Poe modern AU, wherein they both own dogs and meet at the dog park. Because dogs.Â
- Love and War âverse, Hux decides that Starkiller (his beloved war horse) should get his long-deserved retirement.
- another SW modern AU: Ben and Hux are flatmates. Ben and Rey have the cutest long-distance relationship involving lots of skyping. Hux and Poe have phone sex. Dirty, loud phone sex.Â
- Hux loves Millicent and dislikes Kylo. But Millicent loves Kylo, and Kylo loves Millicent. Basically, cupid is a cat.Â
- a modern AU in which Hux is in his last year at the prestigeous military academy run by his father, and Ben is the problem child of the equally prestigeous Organa-Solo family. Lots of family drama, and drama in general. Oh, and of course True Love. Tropey as fuck.Â