F - Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
...heh.
My very favorite dialogue I've ever written, I'm pretty sure (at least, it feels like it right now; I'm still riding the high of having a scene just really flow for once in a way writing hasn't done for me in a damn long time) is in my open WIP right now.
The WIP just has dialogue; I'm writing the dialogue first and then going back to fill in the narration once the conversation is done. But it's... well, you'll know exactly what it is:
“Going my way?”
“You seem to have a venue in mind.”
“I have a house, about two hours from here, right on the coast.”
“That’s convenient.”
“Yes. Most things about my former life were arranged to be very convenient.”
“Only most things?”
“One could argue that many of the art forms I enjoy are inherently inconvenient. They are certainly laborious and time-consuming, yet I find them entirely rewarding.”
“Nothing convenient about threading tree roots through someone’s veins and arranging flowers in his chest cavity, that’s for sure.”
“No. But it was very beautiful, Will. I wish you could have seen that one in person, where it was meant to be seen.”
(For anyone who's not an obsessive Hannibal fan but might still end up reading this response - I'm proud of it because of the tie-ins to two lines in the final scene of the series finale, which takes place a few hours after this conversation.)
H - How would you describe your style?
...Cerebral, I guess, first and foremost? I'm most interested in what the characters are thinking and feeling and why. While I *do* occasionally write rapid-fire dialogue (like I'm semi-doing in the aforementioned WIP; I've presently got almost 1k of solid dialogue in that doc), that's more the exception than the rule. I tend to avoid action unless it's truly necessary. The emotional arc is always the most important aspect of a fic to me.
But it's probably also still worth mentioning that I've got a predilection for lush imagery that... doesn't dominate my work like it used to, but is definitely still a major contributing factor in most things.
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...heh.
My very favorite dialogue I've ever written, I'm pretty sure (at least, it feels like it right now; I'm still riding the high of having a scene just really flow for once in a way writing hasn't done for me in a damn long time) is in my open WIP right now.
The WIP just has dialogue; I'm writing the dialogue first and then going back to fill in the narration once the conversation is done. But it's... well, you'll know exactly what it is:
“Going my way?”
“You seem to have a venue in mind.”
“I have a house, about two hours from here, right on the coast.”
“That’s convenient.”
“Yes. Most things about my former life were arranged to be very convenient.”
“Only most things?”
“One could argue that many of the art forms I enjoy are inherently inconvenient. They are certainly laborious and time-consuming, yet I find them entirely rewarding.”
“Nothing convenient about threading tree roots through someone’s veins and arranging flowers in his chest cavity, that’s for sure.”
“No. But it was very beautiful, Will. I wish you could have seen that one in person, where it was meant to be seen.”
(For anyone who's not an obsessive Hannibal fan but might still end up reading this response - I'm proud of it because of the tie-ins to two lines in the final scene of the series finale, which takes place a few hours after this conversation.)
H - How would you describe your style?
...Cerebral, I guess, first and foremost? I'm most interested in what the characters are thinking and feeling and why. While I *do* occasionally write rapid-fire dialogue (like I'm semi-doing in the aforementioned WIP; I've presently got almost 1k of solid dialogue in that doc), that's more the exception than the rule. I tend to avoid action unless it's truly necessary. The emotional arc is always the most important aspect of a fic to me.
But it's probably also still worth mentioning that I've got a predilection for lush imagery that... doesn't dominate my work like it used to, but is definitely still a major contributing factor in most things.