Originally posted by: tootiefrootie11
Viii 🤗 You are incredible hon! Firstly, am humbled by the dedication. I selfishly asked you to write as I love to read it all and so I feel a bit of a fraud for accepting the dedication but loved it anyway! 😃
You always praise me for research so this time I have to say all that 😃. That story was beautiful- as soon as I started to read that bit I was transfixed, it was redolent of Aesop's Fables for me- does that make sense?! It reminded me of all I loved about reading in childhood basically and has stayed with me.I love DP and I was overjoyed to see him assessed here and in such a lovely, human way too- 👏👏. The whole DP-Sanksaar-Kavita, then tied in so neatly with SwaSan was lovely- really made me feel like the circle completed.The SwaSan interactions as ever were poetically beautiful and the whole thing had a balance and flow that you usually nail with all your writing. Again, sad that the elements series is ended but I have it in my favourites now to read when I want to, thank you again for it all!
Hi Shruti 🤗 🤗
I sincerely meant that dedication to you guys. As you know, I was kind of toying with the idea of writing "Air" as the 4th to finish the quartet. But I was initially planning that on Lucky, and well, you know my emotions on that loser at the moment...I've already joined your rant in your Sanskaar's letter to Lakshya post 😊
I just didn't have the energy to write an 5000 plus word OS on a character who's spineless, brainless, conscienceless and shameless. 😊 I mean, even if he had one of these aspects, I still would have...but he failed all! I didn't want to waste such a wonderful element as Air, on (Un)Lucky...
So then it seemed I would have to end it with the Trilogy (Water, Fire, Earth), but then you guys were all wonderful and motivating. 🤗 So I then decided to skip "Air" altogether and move on to the 5th element, "Space". Thanks to all you guys for that encouragement!
I am so glad you liked the back story for the Maheshwari clan, and the "bedtime tale" I had put in. That was loosely based on a folk tale I remember studying way back in school, but couldn't find anymore. So I mixed it with an Armenian poem I found with a roughly similar theme, altered with dollops of my very Indian imagination 😊
Am so happy, that you liked DP's portrayal, and the way he is a father figure to both Sansku and Swara. I wanted to make the SwaSan reunion in the climax as special as I could...coz I am bracing myself for some pain on screen now.
So I am really happy, too, that you liked that part. For some reason, the dialogues from Desolation of Smaug--- between Tauriel and Kili, about starlight I mean---popped into my head when I was imagining this scene on the terrace. I just had to reference it. Am a HUGE LOTR & Hobbit fan, what about you? 😊
Thanks again Shruti, for all your lovely comments, all through this OS series.