Those who expose themselves to the Fog for over an hour begin to change. Most devolve into mindless, bloodthirsty creatures known as Fog Crawlers. Some remain human. The others, the mostly-extinct Morphs, develop supernatural abilities and a scent t...
i've been debating posting or not posting this but eventually decided just to go for it? i mostly wanted to keep this as an update as to what's happening with DoFG because i kind of just left this story and my readers in the dark for a year.
now, i'm not expecting this to be read by many (or anyone), because i know what happens when someone doesn't update a story for this long on wattpad. still, i'd feel awful if i never said anything.
essentially, my motivation to continue DoFG slowly dwindled as i began university life. even before then. i got interested in other writing projects, i didn't have as much time, and i began exploring my sexuality, romantic orientation, and identity more, which led to me discovering that i'm something along the lines of a gyneromatic/biromantic asexual and a she/they. so that's fun!
to be completely honest, i got so frustrated writing arden as a straight person. it sounds funny, i know, but it got to a point where it was actually infuriating to me because i knew that if i had another chance to restart DoFG, i would've written her as bisexual. in fact, i would've changed a lot of things. i would've written orion as an amab she/her, and i would've developed and foreshadowed the whole plotline between arden and dom better so it was less juvenile. i would've redesigned the institute, too. among many other things.
gosh, i really wish i had the motivation to finish this story. the plot and characters have so much potential, and it's still one of my favourite projects i've ever written, even if my writing style has improved since then. i'd be interested in releasing a spoilers chapter for the end of the book (and the plotted book two :( which i never had the chance to release). i also have several written and unreleased scenes for later in this book and the sequel which i never published, and would be interested in posting if anyone had any remote interest in that. maybe.
oh, yeah, so the sequel. that was going to happen. it was going to be named "dawn of stars and fire" (or DoSF) and i had a shit ton of cool stuff planned for it. still sad my motivation for that is gone. (SUMMARIZED MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE SEQUEL: there was going to be an infectious disease that only hit morphs and made two main characters swap abilities and (to an extent) personality traits for a while, as well as a near (and presumed by the others) important character death. dom and barrett were going to have their long-awaited arc as we finally break down barrett's trauma and he actually starts healing for once. plus draco finally gets a chance at romance, with a character that only gets introduced in book two and is an extremely cool person. because let's be honest, draco has been deserving his enemies to lovers trope for a long time.) also, draco would end the series being seventeen years old?! which is so weird to me, because i still view him as this little baby cinnamon bun who needs all the protection and hugs he can get.
anyway. having told you about all those changes, i made art of arden, orion, and draco the way i would redesign them if i wrote DoFG now. enjoy. :)
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(and yeah, the blue, green, and yellow colour patches on draco's sweater and socks might be the signature colours of arden, orion, and his partner from book two, aka the three most important people in his life. what about it?)
as for me, where am i now? i had one of the scariest and most valuable years of my life, lived alone in downtown Montreal for a year (absolutely wild), almost got stalked by a classmate who had a bad crush on me (seriously, it was creepy. i had just turned eighteen and he was twenty-two and i narrowly avoided him moving to my home city to be with me. ew.), and finally transferred to my dream acting school, which just so happens to be in my home city. it's almost as selective as harvard but not nearly as well known or expensive, so i didn't expect to get in, and flipped when i got the acceptance email. i still don't know how that happened. my classes start in january, and for now, i'm writing almost every day, and i work at a cute little bakery.
i've been working on quite a few books at once. most of them are in the categories of fantasy and queer romance, although i've lately been more interested in featuring queerplatonic and non-romantic storylines (makes my little aspec heart vibrate with happiness). i don't know how much i can share about them, but i can share about one which i don't think will go very far but which i'm still extremely excited about. it's a sapphic novel set in a fantasy world loosely based off of ancient ireland and irish folklore, and it's about a mushroom and bird (in human form) who fall in love. <3 the book is the first in a trilogy about a friend group that explores sexuality and gender through the lens of a cottagecore-inspired fantasy world. although it sounds weird (i know), trust me. it is very cute and i am obsessed. this is one of my favourite passages.
"There became a certain part of the night where Tia forgot where her skin ended; for every time she felt loneliness steal her breath again, there was Cara, limb on limb and pulse beating against pulse. They were a tangle of breath and bone. Tia's lungs were born from shadows, but Cara became a blooming light in the centre of her chest. More than that, she was tangible. She was real."
aka, the time they fell asleep on top of each other after one tried to calm the other down. :) :) :)
the only reason i'm talking about this novel in particular is because if it does end up going nowhere, i may post it on wattpad for fun and i do love to shamelessly advertise my projects. i'm still hoping to go down the traditional publishing route for my other projects, which becomes much harder the more information about them is released, so i'll keep quiet about them for now. just trust that they are very exciting and i figuratively melt in happiness thinking about them.
i think that's all i have to say for now? in case anyone does read this, i appreciate your time, and thank you for being a dedicated and devoted reader and for coming back to me after all this time. i really do appreciate the support. <3
as always, i'm here for any of you if you ever need it. DoFG was a wild ride of a novel, and i'm so glad i got to share it with such a supportive community. it really kickstarted my life as a writer, and now i'm an editor for multiple literary magazines and have published poetry and wrote a thirty minute screenplay which was adapted into a short film, which i literally never expected. it sounds cheesy, but i genuinely wouldn't have made it this far without the support i got on DoFG.
