Verity's Book 2.0

I Got a Tag

It's been a long time. I miss doing these things :')

I actually was tagged a loooong time back by elenrith, but I have not felt the luxury of time for a while now. My life finally feels like it's slowing down (haha who am I kidding), and I remembered this and wanted to do it. So screw life and adulting and responsibilities, I'm gonna do a tag.

Now, do I actually have fanfics? No, at least none of any substantial length. Definitely not any worth trying this tag on.

So I get to be a little rebel and do my own books. >:)

*thirty agonizing seconds later* I CAN'T PICKKKKKK

Y'know, I'm just going to do it for the Ceristen Series as a whole. "fic" will be replaced with "series" or other term as appropriate.

1. What inspired you to write the books this way?

Every book in the Ceristen Series started out as a story improvised verbally by my sister and me (eight years later and we're still doing the talkplays). Talkplay was just a part of our life back then. We did it day in and day out, like breathing. Some of the stories were better than others, and we agreed mutually that I needed to write them down.

I still remember analyzing the Thorne's journey late one night, and bolting upright in bed as the revelation seized me. "Mercy, it's so good! I should write it!"

It was always the people that made the stories what they were. I wrote for the people. I still do. They're so, so real to me.

2. What scene did you first put down?

I'm gonna do this one book by book.

The Journey: I just grabbed a notebook and started exactly where the talkplay had started: with Fred's soliloquy about his missing siblings. Only then, it commenced with him tiptoeing out of the house to deliberately avoid Great-aunt Bridget, and she nabbed him afterwards to remind him of his birthday.

*nostalgic sigh* Fun times.

The Village: The moment where Fred punches Arwinar Stafford in the jaw. Ah the inspiration and righteous passion I felt as I scribbled down the words. Yeah, you're wondering why you don't remember that part? It's because it didn't make it into the final cut. It didn't even make it into the first cut.

Fred The Jerkface will not be missed. (except by me in a weird author-love way)

The Claw: Fred reading his letter and asking Fiona's opinion on whether he should take a vacation. Because back in that trashcan of a first draft he didn't love any of his siblings enough to ask their opinion on going down to Delgrass.

The War: The dragon battle scene. Alllll the trauma mwahaha.

3. What's your favorite line of narration?

Idk man. *skims The Claw since that happens to be my favorite of the books*

Here's one I likey:

"Cold, blinding anger formed a rod of steel in Mordred'scenter."

Here's another:

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"Corian was dead, the fateful claw-mark across his features and no trace of the murderer to hand. Inspector Dickson rode swiftly home, every beat of the hooves making a desperately resolute chant: I – shall – find – it – I – shall – find – it – Shall –find it – Shall – find – it – Shall – find – it...