– favorite line/scene you wrote this year
i feel like i’ve only written one worthwhile story this year so both lines and scene comes from finding light in the dark places
(idk i really loved all of the baking scenes with dan and phil in my fic but i really like this scene because its a retelling of the events that all of the flashbacks had been leading up to and dan has this thought before he leaves for school about bringing a sweatshirt because of that 50% chance that it may rain, but then he doesn’t bring it because he thinks that it won’t. i was trying to circle back from the beginning of him regretting not bringing the sweatshirt, it’s meant to be a much deeper line but idk if that came across how i wanted it to lol either way \0/)
favourite scene, final flashback scene:
Later, that night, when he’s alone, he’ll think that maybe he thought about Jacob that day a little bit more than he normally would—that maybe it was okay to do so, nobody could fault him for that. He held his hand, gripping onto it like it was a lifeline, and his thoughts would go to Liz and to a daughter that barely got to know her own father. He’ll think of how that moment was so very isolated in time.
And then, he’ll think, after he left the scene when he was walking around with blood on his shirt and his hands, that he should have brought that hoodie he thought about bringing that morning.
favourite line, what i wrote in dan’s letter to jacob:
I don’t know much about physics or chemistry very well, to be honest I hated it in school, but I do remember this: energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be altered from one form to another. So, according to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone.
You’re still here in one way or another.
I’m sorry for how long it took me to let things go.
