I'm most curious about your "Who Wander in the Mire, Love and Joy Come to You" fic. From your Ask an Author post, Questions #2 & 26… My other favs of yours are below if you want to talk about any of these -Your Hand Touching Mine this is how Galaxies Collide -Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a Thought -Works of Art to See Your Soul -Fortress of Warmth and Kisses -Fairy Lights on Winter Nights
Oh, wow, thanks for the ask. <3 I'll answer for Who Wander in the Mire, Love and Joy Come to You on this post. May answer something for the other fics on another post. If you end up having a specific question you wanted answered on any of those ones, let me know. 2. How did you come up with the idea?
A thought popped into my head about Kara and Lena working together on something small during the holidays. Let them have a little adventure, Supergirl and Lena working together, helping the world. As it goes with me, I started to write and it was all going along when something unexpected happened. The scene where we meet Khir happened. For the while I stopped writing because I felt that addition did not fit in with the expectations of a 'light' holiday fic. I kept it all to myself when one day @weinzapfel asked me how the fic was going, as i was supposed to finish it for the Christmas, the year the series ended.
She kindly listened to me explain why I was stuck and I felt the story was no longer a proper holiday one. She was quiet and then said, "why not just keep writing it. See what happens, maybe it will work."
It took me a bit to process that, but then I just kept writing. And slowly the story became what it was. Much of it poured out of me.
About halfway through drafting, I realized it was a sequel to Your Hand Touching Mine this is how Galaxies Collide that somehow my brain decided to write Supergirl and Lena having an adventure, leading up to their first kiss.
I guess the short answer is that the story grew in the telling.
Hopefully, this answered your question.
26. Share your favorite detail
I loved writing the moment where Kara is so angry in the woods that her breath does not show in the air because her anger made her build up the freeze breath in her system.
Bonus detail: I ended up writing Kara connecting to the Aurora and the northern landscape naturally, from my own head. I did not realize when I wrote it that this was something that occurred in some of the comics and one of the cartoons.
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