Hey there, fellow writers! You can call me by my username, Ceara Einin, or some variation thereof. If you want to know, I'm a young adult who caught the writing bug in high school and hasn't been able to get rid of it ever since. I'm a sucker for angsty stories that end in a happily-ever-after. Yeah, I'm a sap.

About Me:

I started writing here when I was in high school, and now I'm somehow an adult with a job and a dog and stuff. It's weird, but that's life, right? I don't post nearly as much as I used to, but I'm trying to finish up the stories I left hanging. I'm also on AO3, but for now I'm just posting edited versions of the stuff I like from this account. Same name, so I'm easy to find if you care to.

I still do NaNoWriMo (never heard of it? Look it up, it's awesome!) every year, and it's still just as amazing and challenging and impossibly awesome. Yes, I do the camps too. No, I have no earthly idea how it gets done, especially now that I have things like laundry and cooking and car maintenance to get done too. And yes, I still recommend NaNo to anyone who will listen. If you haven't done this magical event at least once, stop reading this at once and go sign up!

My Stories:

To Dance With A Prince - This was my first story, both on the site and (of substantial length) ever. I've toyed with the idea of reworking it, but for now I've decided to keep it as is for nostalgic value and because I haven't figured out how to upgrade it without losing the original tone. So for the foreseeable future, it's staying as is. (Complete)

To Love A King - This is the sequel to TDWAP, and it takes on a darker tone than the original. If you were really happy with the ending of TDWAP and darker isn't your cup of tea, you have been forewarned. In a lot of ways, TLAK is my transitional story, when I was really figuring out what kind of writer I wanted to be. (Complete)

To Have And To Hold - Here we have the sequel to TLAK and the last of the trilogy. It's done now, but it was a long road getting this one finished. For the foreseeable future, it will be the end of this series. I may write a one-shot or two for the story at request, but otherwise my plan is to let this story be the last installment. (Complete)

Finding Eden - I'll be the first to say this is my darkest story on here, and it is not for the faint-hearted. I thought this one up back when I was toying with the idea of reworking TDWAP and I quickly realized that my brain was taking me in a very different direction than the story I was trying to write. So one November, I just let my brain do its thing, and FE is the result. It took a fair amount of editing to get it ready to be posted, to be honest. But here it is, and it deals with themes of trauma and PTSD, so again, you have been warned. (Complete)

Moonrose - Yet another Narnia fanfic. I swear, I think up more Narnia than anything else. Moonrose is the product of 2013's NaNoWriMo and I've been editing it and toying with it ever since. It came from the observation that we see a lot of people from Earth thrown into Narnia, but we don't really see a lot (if any) Narnians thrown into another world themselves. And because Caspian X is my favorite character, he naturally got tossed into that brainchild straightaway. Personally, I don't think he minded. (Complete)

Tales of Moonlight- This is a collection of one-shots set after Moonrose and before its sequel, Morelia. There's a pretty significant time jump between the two stories, so since I didn't want to shift the timeline I decided to put these up to help with the transition. I do highly recommend reading these. Morelia still makes sense without them, but they help you understand where the characters are after Moonrose and how their relationships with each other shift over the years. (Complete)

Morelia - Moonrose's sequel. I wasn't sure if I was going to write this story, but once the Muse started hopping about and screeching ideas left and right I couldn't resist. (Requests for it were also a big factor, I'll be honest.) Morelia takes place during The Silver Chair, but it's AU because I've muddled about with the timeline a little. Honestly, It always bugged me that Caspian didn't really get to search for his son, so this was my way of wondering what that would've been like. (Complete)

The Wanderer - I've been sitting quietly on this idea for years now, and I finally sat down to write it back in November 2014. This one is one of my better planned stories, and easily my favorite. A LOTR fanfic is along overdue on this account anyway! For this story, I wanted to explore how a young woman grieves her family in the midst of the quest to destroy the Ring. A bit of romance snuck in as well, because I have no self-control. (In progress - HIATUS)

A Narnian Hanging Tree - This really just a quick little one-shot I wrote on a whim one day while I was listening to "The Hanging Tree." Leave it to my weird brain to immediately think Narnia, but it did and this little thing happened. I wasn't sure whether to post it or not, but in the end I just said 'what the heck' and did it anyway. It's a little dark, I admit, so read at your own risk. (Complete)

Behind The Scenes - This is really just a collection of one-shots that come out of my weird brain when I'm at a block for my stories and can't type anything but nonsense. I always wonder how the stories I love came into being. Well, that and misery loves company. Behind the Scenes is just a fun little something, mainly targeted toward other writers or anyone who just wants a peek into what the characters I work with are like when they're not immersed in the story. (Ongoing)

The Woman He Cannot Lose - I wrote this piece for one of my creative writing classes, when I was deep in the Rosian feels and indulged myself at 3am one night. Rose and Caspian as a pairing is really fun to play with, so I wrote this as a semi-companion piece to Morelia. You can read it as either Caspian's hidden thoughts or a completely different story, whichever you prefer. I added a second one-shot to this one at the very end of 2018. (Complete)

This I Promise - This is a crossover, of sorts, between Narnia and the 2015 Cinderella movie (which is now my favorite movie). When planning out Morelia, Rose and Caspian got the grand idea that they wanted to be all romantical. Unfortunately that would never work in that story, so I bargained with them and promised those two crazy kids a romance story inspired by Cinderella. If you shipped Rosian, this might scratch that itch for you. (Complete)

*Many, many thanks to wildhorses1492 for making beautiful cover art for Moonrose, Morelia, and The Woman He Cannot Lose!

Upcoming Stories:

Note: Because of my crazy schedule, I'm changing how I write and post my stories. From here on out, any stories I post will be completely finished first, to avoid the update gaps that tend to happen with life and all. This may mean new stories take a little longer to come out, but I'm guessing you'd rather have steady updates once the story is posted than multiple month gaps.

Rescue Me (tentative title) - This story is still in the first-draft stage. I'm anticipating it will be fairly substantial in length, so the editing process is taking a lot longer. I do know it will be an M-rated story for sexy times. I haven't written a story with those kinds of scenes spelled out before, and I'll try almost anything once. I'm in the middle of completely reworking this one, since the first two drafts really didn't get where I wanted them to go. This is one that might be in the graveyard of almosts forever, to be honest.

Favorite Sayings/Quotes:

"You gotta sauce that hot dog!" ~Colleage at a work meeting (proposal writing gets weird sometimes)

"Sometimes we fall down rabbit holes not to be lost, but to find something we didn't know we wanted or needed." ~Wildhorses1492

"Peace, love and granola." ~my BFF

"You spent three dollars on a spinning piece of plastic?" ~old high school friend, on a field trip

"Personally I never found much fun in dodging potted plants; they're too slow and dim-witted to pose a true challenge. Now dodging a potted rottweiler on the other hand..." ~one of my exes with a good sense of humor

"Do us a favor, I know it's difficult for you; but please stay here, and try not to do anything stupid." ~Jack Sparrow (PotC 1)

"Captain I wish to report a mutiny. I can name fingers and point names." ~Jack Sparrow (PotC4) (Me when writing a paper...)

"I'm wasted on cross country, we dwarves are natural sprinters!" ~Gimli (LotR 2) (I feel you, Gimli.)

"I've been this way for seventeen years. How does my weirdness still surprise you?" ~Garideth

"Whoever said that 'words don't hurt' obviously never got hit by a dictionary." ~Unknown

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll land among the stars." ~Brian Littrell and Les Brown

"I failed my way to success." ~Thomas Edison (That college life tho...)

"It's not that you don't have a heart. It's just that it's so big you can't see the edges." ~my mom

"You know what I realized? I've already won. I've run my race. Now you run yours." ~Penny Tweedy (Secretariat)

"You have to be brave enough to take out that white sheet of paper and put on it words that could be evidence of your stupidity." ~Sol Saks

"Nothing is impossible, just hard or difficult." ~Ben Caulfield (Good quote for NaNoWriMo)

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." ~Isaac Asimov

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write." ~Saul Bellow

"Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum." ~Terri Guillemets

"Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he’s either naive or insane." ~Leon Uris

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” ~Toni Morrison

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.” ~Lloyd Alexander

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ~Anais Nin

“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.” ~Neil Gaiman

"I have dozens and dozens of children. They just live in a different world and people usually refer to them as characters." ~Unknown

“Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint, every line in the dirt like a secret message.” ~Stephen King

"A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of writing and thinking about writing." ~Unknown

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” ~Frank Herbert