F, M, W for the ask meme!! <3
F: Share a snippet from one of your favourite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.…oh dear. that’s a difficult one tbh bc I write. A Lot? of dialogue?? hmm i’ll go with the opening scene of this kaito and akako prompt fill:
Akako looks up to see Kuroba Kaito standing before her, left hand extended. “Not going to wrest your partner back from Hakuba-kun, then?” she asks, a little coolly.
Kuroba shrugs slightly, and doesn’t follow her glance to where Nakamori Aoko is. “Hakuba’s been waiting to dance with her all night – as if Aoko would actually say no if he asked, the idiot.” He pauses. “So, are you coming or not?”
“Your manners are deplorable as always, Kuroba-kun,” Akako says, though she places her right hand in his nevertheless.
so if it’s not already obvious, i focus a lot on writing dialogue (bc nothing else substantial actually happens most of the time lmao) – tbh i often start from 95% pure dialogue before going back to fill in actions/thoughts/assorted pov fun. i also obsess over openings a lot and tend to revise until i’m satisfied before moving on, but i actually liked this opening right off bc i felt that it set up both of these characters and their relationship to each other quite well.
M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?literally everything i’m working on rn is either a prompt or some addition to existing verses, so instead allow me to pick *sticks arm into six feet of wips* something *muffled noises of word avalanches* randomly:
Shinichi’s current theory is that whatever poison Trenchcoat Guy had fed him was supposed to have killed him. Possibly it had. The effect just hadn’t stuck, at least not in the way it was usually supposed to.
Hattori’s theories changed every day. Most of them were nonsense. Shinichi told him as much.
(Hattori had shrugged and said, “One day I’ll be right, just you wait.”
Shinichi couldn’t argue with that.)
W: Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?both! though it depends on what i feel like writing:
specific prompts are like drawings with fixed outlines – deciding how to colour each part in and filling in all the small details is always fun, plus it saves me from having to second-third-fourth-guess what to write
for general prompts, on the other hand, the main question is always whether to play it straight or subvert people’s expectations (obvs i usually favour the latter, but being true to form can be interesting sometimes too)
and of course, utterly random prompts are always good for a dash of the unexpected, which is how flash point verse happened at all
