Introduction
About
I'm Chelsey, US-based, somewhat older than 34 but younger than 42. They/she, semi-funny, changeling, obsessive.I'm here because I can't not write. I'm here because all I can think about is how to write the next line that will light up someone's brain. I write with intent, with purpose, with feeling. I write in order to claw my way into the reality of something, to pick it apart, to twist it around, to knead and push and pull. I want to explore the hollowed recesses of each thread, find the story hidden between the words, and if, along the way, we happen to create something silly together—well, that's even better.
Upcoming Characters
1.In the dim shops of London's first Chinatown, there is a figure everyone knows. An auntie, a mother, a grandmother—everyone's Grandmother, as she is often referred. Operating out of a small spice shop within which she seems to reside alone, no one really knows whose family she's actually connected to, but she still seems to be invited everywhere, offering up favors and advice as casually and tactically as if she were playing a tile game.
2.
Once a promising ballerina from silk merchants in Lyons, a scandal in Paris forced her to retreat from the spotlight. Resurfacing a year later and a decade wiser, she assumes a new stage name and joins the Royal Italian Opera as part of its corps de ballet; a graceful step down, but she is unwilling to let it stop her from climbing her way back to the top.
3.
An upper class lady with a penchant for natural philosophy who spends her days avoiding the call of marriage and her nights writing fantastical operas involving forest animals.
4. Wanted, associated with Velvet's Felicite
Raised with a loving and forward-thinking middle-class family in Oxford, Alexander Findley was meant to follow in his father's footsteps in academia, but a life on stage calls to him instead. Enjoying some measure of success since joining his sisters in London, Alex enjoys a modest house of his own and works to make a name for himself in a way that will make his father and family proud.
