Q&A of The Adventures of Leywa: The Dark Castle project.

Questions for the indie Author, Caitlyn Woodruff-Fowler.

Q: What did you want to be when you grow up?

Caitlyn: When I young, I loved animals so much, I always wanted to be a veterinarian, but mostly, I love to write, I had ideas from one of my favorite video games, books, and Mangas, that's how I got into writing Leywa based off of Zelda, If I was never a writer, I would've been a veterinarian.

Q: What did you realize you want to be a writer?

Caitlyn: Well, again Zelda has inspired me to write a strong female character, I grew up reading Narnia, watching Lord of The Rings trilogy, everything fantasy is what I got into in my own world.

Q: What's your embarrassing childhood memory?

Caitlyn: Oh no (laughing) There's a hilarious part, my family got a puppy named Brownie from Veronia, and we wanted to take him to the first family beach, he was sleeping on my brother's lap, I have two brothers, my youngest brother was notorious of car sick, he threw up on Brownie and that woke him up, Brownie started to walk on my other brother's lap and started to pee on him.

Q: Oh my God! (laughing)

Caitlyn: It's so hilarious that even my family were dying! (laughing)

Q: What's your favorite childhood memory?

Caitlyn: My favorite part was family gathering for the holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving, I thought it was traditional for love and support, and now in my adulthood after my great-grandparents and my step-grandmother passed away, everything just changed like it was never a same, and my grandfather has dementia, but we're always there for each other and cherish our memories.

Q: As a young person, who did you look up to the most?

Caitlyn: 1. My cousin Chelsea, 2. Avril Lavigne.

Q: What was your favorite thing about school?

Caitlyn: This is a good one, I used to sneak in the library during Lunch hours to find Harry Potter books, but the librarian stopped me that I wasn't ready for Harry Potter (tsk).

Q: What was your least favorite thing about school?

Caitlyn: Homework, I needed naps because schools was hard as my mom's job.

Q: What were your hobbies as a kid, what are your hobbies now?

Caitlyn: As kid, I mimic my toys to play as Pokémon trainers and I had Pokémon toys to play the part and other than that, I loved crafting for the holidays, my hobbies right now besides writing is playing Tarot, Oracle, and Lenormand, I love to transform myself and insights on people's energies.

Q: What was your first job, and what was your worst job?

Caitlyn: My first job was a dishwasher position at The Bakery Shop when I was sixteen years old, my worst job was working as a housekeeper, too many rooms to clean that I was afraid I didn't have time to write my projects, I'm working as a Garden waterer at Home Depot, I don't want to go back to retail, I want to be a successful writer as my job.

Q: What book is on your nightstand now?

Caitlyn: Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas.

Q: How did you come up with ideas for The Dark Castle, The third Leywa book?

Caitlyn: I came up with an idea that was based off of Zelda: Twilight Princess, where there are two worlds in Tarynsborne 1. The Light Realm and 2. The Void Realm, Leywa is struggling grief and loss, and moving on to enjoy her life in Firwen Forest and planning to fight against Moga, Tyron was struggling the same loss and grief and discovered his strong powers of what the true meaning of Tyron and Leywa's purposes are, is Fortitude.

Q: What is your favorite scene in The Dark Castle?

Caitlyn: When Leywa and Tyron can feel each other from her god like superpower abilities.

Q: If you could live in Tarynsborne, what would you be?

Caitlyn: A ferran, ferrans had magical and healing abilities, I look good in magic wielding.

Q: Is there any significance behind the word "Mortuilater?"

Caitlyn: Mortuilater came from Latin "Mort" meaning death, and later is a combination of gladiator, they are the mysterious and ominous entities that are so important in The Dark Castle, and they will find out what The Mortuilaters purposes are. Some people think they're bad spirits, but. How exactly?

Q: Now that The Dark Castle is officially YA and it was almost NA, what are materials that are dark enough for the third book?

Caitlyn: The focus is about grief and loss, and war is nearing and Moga was manipulated of her goals by Myzigor turning the world Void with no light, raw, violence, and deception, also romance hit between Leywa and Tyron would be reconciled after their grief.

Q: What can readers expect in the third book? No spoilers please! (laughing)

Caitlyn: Well, it's not really a spoiler, we all know there will be no Void taking over Tarynsborne and Leywa as a goddess Terra will set the world of light.

Q: What makes you laugh out loud?

Caitlyn: Home Movies by Brendon Small, when Mr. Lindonson left his keys in the car and his sleeves were latched from the door and the car took off while he was stuck (laughing.)

Q: What did you do on The Rainy day?

Caitlyn: Write. when I was schedule to, if I'm not writing, taking a walk on the rain or sit on the porch with coffee.

Q: Who is your favorite fictional character?

Caitlyn: Zoya Nazyalensky, and Black Widow, close enough.

Q: Did you ever do Writing Community? How did you do it to get back on track?

Caitlyn: I still kept in touch with Writing Community and NANOWRIMO, there are times I get over stimulated from work and it can be a little hard to keep on track, but I'm never stopped writing, and I would make a list of what to do when I'm not working at Home Depot.

Q: What do you want your readers to remember about books?

Caitlyn: When it comes to my favorite books, I want to live in the world of what authors created, it's worth to say that You are your person and still be connected to the character you are most related to and help you get motivated in this chaotic world.

Q: What would you do if you ever stopped writing?

Caitlyn: That depends if I wanted to start a family with my husband just to take a hiatus from writing to focus on motherhood, and when I'm ready to go back writing, I would, it's better to be a stay-at-home mom than going to back to retail.

Q: What did you like best about yourself?

Caitlyn: I'm easily approached by people in parties.

Q: What re your weird habits?

Caitlyn: Now that's my favorite part (laughing) I love shopping Shien for seasonal clothes and Etsy to buy tarot cards, divination stuff and bookish shirts to match my author aesthetic and love shopping to Barnes and Noble, I try my best not to buy too many books (laughing)

Q: What would your readers be most surprised to learn about you?

Caitlyn: I wanted to be manga writer of the early The Adventures of Leywa manga, but it was so bad that I had to throw it in the trash, she wasn't called Leywa, she was called "Sakura."

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