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i started reading the grey daughter again recently and i forgot what an amazing premise it is and how phenomenal your writing is!
i was wondering, after working on fics for so many years, have you found your perspective on any of your past works to have changed? or even just previous chapters you’ve written? it must be so cool to grow with a ship you love but do you ever find yourself wishing you took a different perspective or exploring other storylines or anything?
also this isn’t as detailed ask - just for fun but do you think youll ever delve into more mature or ‘adult’ themes if you catch my drift?
love your work and hope you are doing well!
Hi! Thanks so much for reading (again) and taking the time to message. :)
It's interesting that you ask about perspective over time, as I have just completed a re-read (actually, I listened to it as an audio book--I plugged the work into Speechify) of The Grey Daughter and cleaned up the typos (so much more obvious to my ear than my eye!), so I've had a chance to revisit every word, concept, etc and just completed that endeavor today!
The quick and dirty is that no, on this particular story, my perspective hasn't changed, because by the time I was half to three quarters of the way through The Assassin's Apprentice, I had a pretty clear picture in my mind of the overarching story and how it would go. And the re-read didn't result in me saying, "Oh, I really should have done XYZ instead" since everything is pretty much designed to get us to the end point I envisioned years ago. I think also that this whole process is affected by the fact that I started writing these stories as an adult with a reasonable amount of life experience. So, my ideas haven't been massively impacted by some sudden maturity or experiencing heartbreak or tragedy for the first time. All of that was already in my rearview when I started writing.
As far as exploring other storylines, that's the thing that's so great about fanfiction--you have the freedom to explore those in another work (rather than re-working the original to include them--although I suppose that is another option). A variant of an idea can be written as a drabble, or a one-shot, without impeding the primary story. That's how Morpheum came about. This throw-away character of the Handsome Man got bigger and bigger, but he's not the star of the show in the trilogy, so to explore him a bit more, i just wrote Morpheum.
As far as becoming more explicit in my works, I guess I would never say never, but I think there are ways to write sex without it necessarily being smut. I don't have an objection to it per se, but it's not really my style, for a couple of reasons. First, I'm not sure how interesting I can make describing what is essentially mechanics laid out in stepwise fashion. And there is *so much* of it out there, I don't know what new angle I can bring to it, you know? I think there are ways to describe intimacy and sex that make apparent what is going on (the Bear and Olive have sex "on screen" at one point in TAA) without getting explicit. I think the source material does this--there is a lot of sex, a lot of sexual violence, etc, that happens without the sorts of descriptions so commonly found in both fanfiction and romance novels and I do try to pay homage to GRRM's conventions (somehwat). Secondly, though I don't know if she herself has read any of it, my teen daughter has mentioned to me that some of her friends have found and read my fanfiction, so as much as I try to keep my "real life' and my "fanfic life" from crossing over, sometimes they do, and I want to be able to face these girls when they come to the house! ;)
Thanks again for dropping a line, and I hope this answers your questions adequately!
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Arya, Jaqen & weirwood scene
For your attention: Jaqen H’ghar wearing the face of Daario Naharis, who forgot that he was Jaqen H’ghar (a little confusing, but I wanted to depict it).
This is an illustration for the amazing fanfic «The Gray Daughter», the second part of «The Assassins Trilogy».
Daario's portrait is a mix of the book description and the actor cast. Blue hair and beard sound beautiful, although the golden mustache seems a little silly to me.
I also tried to preserve some elements of Jaqen's facial expression. I don't know if I managed to do justice to his internal struggle.
Next, his oath to Arya. These words are a powerful symbol of this story for me, + the fact that Daario is Daenerys's lover creates many parallels in the story.
Also, with my love for the tale of Bluebeard, somehow everything just... fell into place. My respect and gratitude to the author, this is an incredible story <3
It helped me relax a little during the merciless shelling of my country.
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Poor Jaqen...
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A moment in The Assassin’s Apprentice by Winterlyn Dow

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"My squire could take a lesson from you, it would seem. Frequent leechings are the secret of a long life. A man must purge himself of bad blood. You will do, I think. For so long as I remain at Harrenhal, Nan, you shall be my cupbearer, and serve me at table and in chambers." This time she knew better than to say that she'd sooner work in the stables. "Yes your lord. I mean, my lord." She filled Roose Bolton's cup, and did not spill a drop.
Arya IX, ACoK

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Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow's smile. He used to mess my hair and call me "little sister," she remembered, and suddenly there were tears in her eyes.
- Arya II, AFFC
Needle reminds Arya of her family, and therefore it's the one thing she cannot give up to become No One. As much as she wants to be No One - the girl who isn't hurting, the girl who doesn't have a hole where her heart should be - she just can't let go of those she loves.
And remember, she wanted to go to the Wall to be with Jon. She didn't want to go to the House of Black and White. She only did, and she only does what's necessary to stay, because she has nowhere else to go.
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