Leaving Tracks: Clever Subtitle Goes Here · 2:08pm Jun 1st, 2022
Remember when these Leaving Tracks blogs were supposed to be regular? Hahahahaha I suck at that. This blog post has a little bit of everything, just a heads up.
Been a bit. Got some news, but I'm unsure how much to share. We'll see what I end up typing by the time I get to the end!
Let's start with Fimfiction. There's a new WWB fic in the works, but I'm not writing it. It is extremely good and will be canon to the series though. But I'll let the fic's author announce it properly when she's ready to do that.
That is... the only Fimfiction update 
In other fanfic news, I wrote a post-season 2 finale fic for The Owl House, because holy fuck they got me with a straight ship. Me! In the gay show! I came here for lesbians and the gosh ding dang darn straight ship is my favorite. Wild! Well, anyway, so I kicked off fucking pride month by writing a straight ship fic. Truly, there is still wonder in the world.
I don't know exactly when it'll be publicly released. Currently it's on my Patreon, but like, I'll surely be posting it on AO3 and Offprint in due time. Idk if I'll get cover art for it, depends on finances. Will post another blog when that story goes out, though. I also have some desire to write a novel for TOH, featuring Huntlow and Lumity heavily. But, like, who knows if and when I'll get to that. In my traditional fashion I've no interest in anything but slice of life stuff, and there are some big questions left to answer from that finale.
For other book stuff, what was the last thing I told y'all? Let's see... Oh Fuck It Was "The Wide World" 
Okay, well, that was the main thing I was writing for a while, then I got this other idea to just smash together "Looking Glass" with "Tension Points" and make a queer small town mental health story with outcast kids. It's a fantastic idea tbh and it would be so checking cool to do it, but also isn't what I'm working on so I have no reason to actually be talking about it!
What I am working on is a trilogy (ugh, generic, I know) called, currently, Behind These Walls. It's a story about a recently divorced woman in her thirties trying to clean up her life after her parents die, so she moves into a big house and oh no it's haunted but then wait oh no even more the ghost is cute! So she must answer that age old question we've all considered, Would you smooch a ghost? I'm making light of it because I'm in a jokey sorta mood but like, this is a drama with the main theme being trauma, that covers some really heavy stuff. That said, I specifically set out to create a genuinely wholesome romance between a living woman and a ghost woman.
In a previous blog post, I mentioned being on Adderall and how it was a weird feeling of "I feel like if I start writing I could probably do it, but I can't get myself to start." Well, I talked about that with my therapist (god, y'all, therapy is so fucking cool like legit it's Bunn approved) and she helped me to work on my self-motivation. Basically I was right, Adderall can help me focus, but it can't help me actually make that initial push to get started. That has to come from me, and it gets easier and easier as my brain starts to realize things take regular amounts of time now. Like, before writing a page might've taken two hours, just to throw a number out, because I wouldn't focus. Now it takes half an hour (again, just kinda yeeting a number) but my brain still equates it to the two hour timeframe because that's what I lived with for years. So as my brain adjusts and learns, you know, I can do shit now, it grows a bit easier every time.
As has been the case for years, the moral of the story is to do drugs, kids! Please only do drugs as prescribed by a trustworthy prescriber.
So aside from writing, what's going on with me? Well, life has been fucking wild, but tbh I don't know that I actually want to talk about that here. Not so much because I don't want to get into my private life, but because other people involved may not want their private lives discussed so openly. Suffice it to say life has thrown a few weird turns at me. If you know you know and all that.
But yeah, I really feel like this ghost story is different. I think it's truly something special, and more importantly, something I can finish. I've been workshopping it extremely heavily with my own personal rogues gallery of thedarkprep and Gowak, and my newest collaborator, bats. The three of them have been instrumental in shaping this story up, and as they're all phenomenal writers in their own right, you know this will be a good one 
My other goings on include not streaming, which I talked about doing weekly a while back, but which I then did not do weekly. I streamed the original Resident Evil, then my schedule was not conducive to streaming more of the RE games. That's likely to change in about a month, at which point I might resume streaming, as I did very much enjoy it.
Anyway, I think that more or less sums it up! I'll see y'all another time, for now it's time for this bunny to hop along. Today's question to close us off is: Would you smooch a ghost? There is only one right answer and you will be judged harshly on if you get it right...
I would attempt to smooch a ghost, then accidentally pass right through them, and comedically flop on my face.
Glad to hear stuff is going good for you. I always wish I had more time and energy to read whenever I hear you've made something new.
5661324
While this is not the exact answer I had been looking for, it amused me greatly so you pass!
And no worries, I get the feeling as I have very much been meaning to get to the last thing you sent me... Someday life will be kind to us and we'll actually read things again.
damn :O
tfw your gf asks if you'd smash or pass a ghost. :V
The answer, incidentally, is 'hell yeah.'
5661475
That is so extraordinary close to the exact answer I was looking for that I declare you the winner!