#whoops i forgot to tag you when i first answered this maddie <3

[sergeantpixie]

how exactly did you get the idea for "all I know is a new found grace"? it's my favorite of your stories!

Thank you so much, anon! It was a lot of fun to write :)

So I think I said in the author's note that I started writing it as a way to make it through a day of classes after I pulled an all-nighter back in college (and that it took me an entire year to write!) but the idea of Dean and Elena meeting in high school was something I'd been playing around with for awhile even before that.

See, originally I wanted to write an AU where Dean is Elena's ex in the tvd pilot instead of Matt. However, I just couldn't figure out how to make that work (I have since figured that out - stay tuned 👀) so eventually it struck me that it would be fairly easy to slide Dean in as the other new guy because the Winchesters were hunting the Salvatores.

I was also interested in the idea of sort of doing the same thing I did with Addendum and adding Elena to spn but instead trying to get as close to possible to a canon with the Winchesters in the tvd pilot. I didn't go quite as strict with the dialogue on plot in tvd because that's like half of why Addendum is such a miserable write - there's really not a ton of room for creativity or spontaneity - but I tried to really think about it in terms of adding to canon instead of diverging from it. Plus I was really missing writing certain tvd characters - particularly Caroline and Bonnie! - with where I was at in Addendum so it was a fun excuse to write them.

The sequels on the other hand are a bit less interested in canon, in part because of how much Damon and Stefan drive the plot in season 1, and also because I thought it would be fun to see an alternate route to getting to where the show was heading in those first two seasons!

And that's pretty much it tbh. It was a fun easy idea and at the time it struck me as a fairly quick write (16k words later I was definitely laughing at myself, but it was fun to write!) and engaging enough that I wouldn't embarrass myself by falling asleep in any of my classes (and it was!)

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#asks #anonymous #thank you anon! #definitely a fun question to answer :) #all roads they lead me here #deanlena #idk if you're the same anon who asked about addendum but that's gonna be a much more complicated answer lmao #it might take me a few days #bella writes (allegedly) #whoops i forgot to tag you when i first answered this maddie <3