Verdant1337

The goal of this series is simple...Joy.
          	Life is dark and depressing, and the books, music, shows, and movies we watch and listen to everyday seam to push the ideology that life sucks and everyone is cruel. But I dont want to write that story, I want to write a story that inspires people to go and live, to treat everyday like its a cheesy tv show or a choreographed dance even when things get tough. This series will get dark, and bad things will happen, but just like in life, we dont live for those bad things, we live to experience the good stuff, and we fight the darkness with every shred of compassion and hope that we hold in our hearts. The world is full of experiences good and bad, and those are both important, but dwelling on a single moment or feeling isnt the answer, we have to keep going no matter what, so dance like everyones watching, joke like you have a laugh track behind you, and love like you are in some romantic comedy, because life is what you want it to be, so dont let a damn thing stop you from smiling!

Verdant1337

The goal of this series is simple...Joy.
          Life is dark and depressing, and the books, music, shows, and movies we watch and listen to everyday seam to push the ideology that life sucks and everyone is cruel. But I dont want to write that story, I want to write a story that inspires people to go and live, to treat everyday like its a cheesy tv show or a choreographed dance even when things get tough. This series will get dark, and bad things will happen, but just like in life, we dont live for those bad things, we live to experience the good stuff, and we fight the darkness with every shred of compassion and hope that we hold in our hearts. The world is full of experiences good and bad, and those are both important, but dwelling on a single moment or feeling isnt the answer, we have to keep going no matter what, so dance like everyones watching, joke like you have a laugh track behind you, and love like you are in some romantic comedy, because life is what you want it to be, so dont let a damn thing stop you from smiling!

Verdant1337

Out of spite against Wattpad for gatekeeping those features, I will list off abunch of interesting-ish facts for anybody who is actually reading this!
          1- The story book opening is very important but will be getting an overhaul after I actually do the last chapter
          2- When writing the scene where Lara walks around the city helping people as she makes her way to the Knight tryouts, I would listen to the song "Everybody Wants To Rule The World", by Tears For Fears, which is the song I imagine is playing in the background during that scene.
          3- The biggest inspirations for this book and the series itself come from Genshin Impact, The Owl House, DnD, and ALOT of 90s-early 2000's media. 
          4- My biggest inspiration for writing is the book series The Land Of Stories by Chris Colfer, those books inspired me to start writing when I was still in middle school...and yes I did watch Glee, which Chris Colfer acted in. I also really wanna meet him along with Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion. 

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Lets start this off with a bit of a rant, WATTPAD IS BLUE BALLING ME!...that came out wrong...what I meant was that Wattpad announced a while back that they would be rolling out new writing features such as Exclusive Chapters(I probably will never use this one since its a douche move), Alternate Chapters(I love the idea of giving you guys a glimpse at an alternate timeline, itd be SO cool and would definitely encourage alot of fan stories), and most importantly Writer Reveals, which would allow me to give you guys some behind the scenes information about the book and even scrapped ideas! Did you know there was gonna be a mean girl knight to rival Lara, and by the end they were gonna be begrudging allies? NOW YA DO! It has been YEARS since they announced this, so I have one question...WHERE IS IT?! My readers desire more content in unique forms, why you doing me like dis watty?

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I need to be more present, so I have decided to start info dropping! I am going to bombard you all with facts about this universe and my plans, I HAVE to keep writing or im gonna lose my touch, so get ready for me to yap your ears off! Your notifications WILL BE FULL!!!

Verdant1337

I want to apologize for leaving this story in the dirt for so long, im not done, not even close, just dealing with alot of stress lately and medical issues. I have no desire to stop writing this story at all, in fact all I ever think about is this series, ive just been so exhausted and busy that by the end of the day im too tired to even think about writing and its gone on for so long and those reads have been ticking up but me leaving for such a long hiatus has definitely cost me viewers.

Verdant1337

My major concern is Wattpad's decline and overall bias from people, but I see this community and app as my only real way forwards, but I know this place wont last forever and I cant keep procrastinating, but I NEED you all to push me, to remind me that you all care, for some dumb reason Wattpad doesnt like giving me notifications and I'll need to troubleshoot that
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@Verdant1337 I have been thinking about the future of the series and what comes next but more often then not, designing the future of a story can result in some things needing to be altered, and the stress of having to go back and rebuild is definitely one of the things that has kept me from writing. But writing a story while trying to build your own real story is difficult, im only 23 and I know that is young to most and I used to think this series was my midlife crisis, but im thinking its more than that, I am so scared that this will end like all my previous books, forgotten storied and characters that I told myself was my masterpiece and was set in stone, but I also know this might actually be the true series that will represent me going foreward, I am proud of these characters and I see no other ideas that I want to pursue besides this one.
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Sorry for the long delay on this chapter, it was very important and I wanted to be fully prepared and in the right headspace for it, and I finally came to and decided to finish it. Im hoping I can finally finish this book and continue my story for you all.