Leaving Tracks: Learning My Wheelhouse · 8:03am Feb 10th, 2023

So first things first, I published a Noodleverse vignette over on my anthology story, Rabbit Tracks. It's called Feeding the Fishes, and it's about Spike. No knowledge of the Noodleverse is required to understand it, but it hinges on an aspect of the AU being a species swap. Go read it, I'll wait.

Now that that's done, this is the first Leaving Tracks entry in like five months, and the first with good news in a lot longer. For those who don't know, Leaving Tracks is a blog series about my experiences as a writer, particularly of original fiction. And I've been doing that! I'm five chapters into a story that was heavily workshopped with my usual rogues gallery of thedarkprep, bats, and Gowak. I actually talked about it over on this other Leaving Tracks blog, it's a story about a woman answering the age-old question of "Would you smooch a ghost?"

But I'm not here to directly talk about the story, but rather an interesting thing I learned with it. I knew I like writing slice of life romantic drama, but what I never stopped to think is that I absolutely want it to have a supernatural or fantasy element to it. I never realized that I crave that because pony gives us that element by default, but it's 100% something I go apeshit for. And that got me thinking of how much this story is perfect for me. In fact, I think this may be the most me thing I've ever written, more so than Who We Become even.

I dunno. It's just fun to learn new things about yourself at thirty-two years old, I guess. I thought I understood my writing, but I realize I never fully understand it, and maybe I never will, and maybe that's okay. It did clarify something for me: I will never divorce WWB from pony (well, I have another series idea that I plan to steal liberally from WWB on), I will never divorce Tension Points from Deltarune. I've talked about doing both, making them normal slice of life drama stories. I won't. I want that supernatural or fantasy element, otherwise I lose interest.

I've also been thinking of WWB and pony stories in general, and... I don't know, y'all. Like genuinely, I just do not know what I want to do. All of the ideas that excite me (except for one WWB story that I get kinda hype over) are original fiction. I kinda just want to focus on that these days. And I'm kind of happy with that? Like, I don't really want to drop pony. But at the same time, I like the idea of being an original fiction author more than a fanfic author these days. No shade on fanfic, I don't think original fiction is better in any capacity. But well, I can publish original fiction. I can try to shoot my shot at making it in this industry. I'll probably fail, but I can only make the attempt if I do this.

I dunno, I'm rambling as I do. At least I'm not depressed this time lmao. So yeah, I'm writing. I'm trying to write every day, and I'm failing at that, but I've got five chapters done for this ghost story and I'm excited to share it with y'all someday. Oh, and about the fanfic stuff, I'm just thinking right now. Do not take any of this as me stepping away from it. But I'm enjoying writing this story, and I want to work on original fiction more. I hope some of you will still be there when I do.

I'll hopefully have an update on this sooner than five months, and hopefully it's a good one again!

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thedarkprep

thedarkprep #1 · Feb 10th, 2023 · 3 · ·

If anyone is worried, I’m personally pushing the fanfic stuff. It’s getting done

Mind Jack

Mind Jack #2 · Feb 10th, 2023 · 3 · ·

I know how you feel. I personally have been struggling with writing fanfic a bit, compared to writing my recent original stuff too.

But hey, being excited to write anything at all is a good thing, imo. ^^

Turbotune

Turbotune #3 · Feb 10th, 2023 · 1 · ·

Our community has three core elements,
which are love, pony and creativity (not in any particular order) and we do our best to support them as long as these elementals are in mind! Wish you the best on the trip of discovering Who We (actually that's just You) Become!