Verity's Book 2.0

Scenes I Got Emotional Writing (Like, Really Emotional)

This is kinda full of spoilers for the Ceristen series and Sorrow and Song, fair warning.

But if you've read the Ceristen series, and you're interested in hearing the top scenes that broke my waterworks to write, you're in the right place.

Criteria for scene inclusion: It has to preferably have induced tears during the writing process. If the emotion was pure joy/ecstasy, then choking up is a legitimate qualification.

#1: Veno Thir's sorrow on Tor Hiath (From my one-shot "A Farseeing Flame")

I'll never forget writing this scene. It reached into my deepest soul. You know when you write a character in a place where you've been before mentally? I've never been given a vision of a task I must perform to save the world from destruction, and I've never stood on a mountain and talked to a messenger of God, but Veno Thir's conviction and shame were mine, and I wept as I wrote.

I've never cried so hard writing anything.

#2: Mordred's outburst at Fred in the tunnels (From "The Claw")

When I started thinking of these scenes, this was right behind Veno Thir. The Claw is where we really begin to see how young and broken Mordred is under his hard exterior, and here he really breaks. He breaks so hard and it hurts. Fred is still holding on here -- his breaking point doesn't come till several chapters later -- but his pain is real too, and it just accentuates the anguish of the moment. Both times Fenris is referenced, it's like a crisis point: Mordred cries. And I was crying right along with him.