Good Morning everyone!
Been about a month and a half since last update, life gets a little busy and a lot has happened in my personal life. A new job position I’m thrilled to bits about, some sad news, and some happier times as well.
I’ve admittedly been completely absorbed in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. The characters and story are some of the best yet, in my humblest of opinions and I’ve actually broken my original writing only streak to work on some fanfiction. I’ll be gearing up for some fun collections and consider fanfiction to be an excellent exercise in exploring character dynamics, personalities, and different scenarios that can only help me improve and grow as a writer myself.
On a fanfiction note, I don’t believe in removing/deleting older works– flawed and problematic and awful as they may be. As we grow and change as people (or should be growing and changing, rather), so do we as writers. We learn better grammar and spelling. We choose to ignore the fact that commas and semi-colons need to be protected at all costs and not thrown under the bus. We’re better educated about the world and complex topics around us and how to/not to handle them.
We know and understand what is and is not okay in the ‘real world’/outside of fiction. For some of my more graphic/problematic works nowadays, I’ve begun adding author’s notes/chapter notes/etc in the beginning that works pretty much as the 1990s and early to mid-2000s disclaimers just to be on the safe side, however.
As stated, it’s a precautionary measure on my part but one I feel might help some of the divide/miscommunication between writer and reader base I’ve seen as of late. It’s pretty much a “I, the Author, hereby declare I acknowledge and know the acts/words/behaviors in this story aren’t okay or acceptable and am attempting to write on the subjects with the care and gravity they deserve while also weaving a story to be read and do not condone or believe the actions/words/etc are anywhere near acceptable.”
It shouldn’t be necessary to state such a thing, but in today’s climate… you have to be on the safe side and safety comes first.
I have a spiritual/almost direct sequel to my upcoming short story “The Answer” slowly taking shape in my brain starring Barron’s fiery younger sister and her beloved. We’ll see where that goes! I also have some ideas percolating regarding a new full length novel as well as a short story that takes place prior to the events of it.
I’ve also been attempting to be a little more active on Twitter and Tumblr lately, still pretty spotty but it’s a bit difficult to get into the habit of being social/throwing it all out there while you’re a more cards-to-the-chest personality. Let me know what sorts of things are interesting to post about/that I should talk about!
That’s about all I have for now. You can find me as Kireon on Archive of Our Own, Kiraeon on Fanfiction.Net, Kireon on Tumblr for my ‘personal’ blog full of shitposting and MyEmpireOfSalt for my writing tumblr aka my ‘writeblr’.