Thursday, April 29th, 2021
10:14 a.m.

So.

Thanks so, so much for poking your head in to check on me. You can also find me on Tumblr if you're interested in my reblogs and occasional ramblings, or would like to ask me when the hell I'm going to finally update Leadbelly (I get that a lot, and you can totally yell at me if you'd like - I deserve it). I write slowly, but I'm trying to do better. Things are happening (at a glacial pace) and wheels are turning (no, really - very slowly). :)

I started writing and posting fanfiction on here in 2002. Almost two decades ago. For the longest time I was writing and updating a Cowboy Bebop fanfiction called She Wanted to Die, which eventually became Leadbelly. For those of you wondering if I've completely dropped it (it's been literally been years since I've updated it), I haven't. At least I don't think I have. Life started squeezing in on my writing time. I also lost inspiration for a long while, which I guess happens when you've been working on the same story for over a decade - but it's been coming back word by word. So, yes - believe it or not, I've still got plans to finish Leadbelly. I'm also currently working on the next chapters of Still Life, and Spun.

I struggle with both Bipolar Disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder, so the creativity and focus it takes to write sort of comes and goes in waves -- I write when I'm manic and listen to sad-bastard music when I'm not.

Eventually I ventured outside of the Cowboy Bebop fandom with an Ouran High School Host Club story called Still Life. I'm also in the midst of writing a Frozen fanfic called Spun, which is way out there for me - I've never written anything with fantasy elements. I'm several chapters into a Mystic Messenger fanfic entitled Mend, which is going to be another challenge for me, and I also just posted my very first Ladybug fanfic, which will just be a two-parter (and my first "Teen-rated" effort). Still a lot of emotional bleeding in all of those, but far less actual bleeding. We shall see, right?

Oh...and the "serfer" in my handle is not spelled incorrectly. I get that a lot.

Lots of love,

ssg.x.