Fresh Start: A complete induction and re-introduction & catch up! x
INTRO-BIO: Why Subscribe! Sunday Branding Plan: Day in The Life of Chasey Delaney.
If this is a bit of a different surprise to what you might have been expecting. If you thought this was going to be my Aural Contraband Music Playlists newsletter, it’s moved to HERE:
*NEW* moves for "The Daily Chase!" - Welcome To Another ‘change of plan’ or Branding/Content Redirection!
We’re going back to basics and bringing you daily doses of more writing and personal touches on this particular publication. You may have seen above that all that music related stuff has now been re-homed, promoted to it’s own domain.
Take a look around this one and the archives to get a peek at what I’ve been doing with it. The new blog will be updated in due course so sign up now before it restarts! Click Image Below.
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I’m still not ready to attempt to build a community here like a lot of Substack writers are good at doing. I mean it’s only been about 2-3 years since I started - “I’m Just A Baby”……
I’m a bit of a shy sort of quiet loudmouth introverted extrovert to be honest. I tell you this because you won’t have to ‘worry’ about becoming part of anything to do with me. *sad face*
When you hit subscribe - you do so as a reader, not my advocate, not my friend (as such). Many people might not wish to be found ‘guilty by association’ with a writer like me.
We won’t always fit in. We don’t always stay in our own circles. We Don’t Have TO BE Everything We READ. So stay here with me. x
People I follow & Who Can Follow Me:
Check out my profile chaseyd.substack.com at my ‘reads’ tab and you’ll find that all the various subscriptions/follows I read; writers, artists, poets, musicians, podcasters, sex workers, family oriented people (not so relatable to myself but still valuable for me to read because their writing is so beautiful!), gardening, baking, fashion, bloggers, readers and writers that I enjoy are nothing like me or mine at all!
You’ll no doubt find that none of them are even similar to me and probably would snub their noses up at me if they knew I was there!
Likewise, it doesn’t phase me if you’re not where I am both mentally, environmentally, spiritually, creatively, financially (NO PAYWALLS EVER HERE by the way. I’m poor as fuck and you can see by my ‘poverty mindset’ sometimes as I joke about the conditions upon which I am suffering surviving and thriving through.
IN other words, I don’t care how posh, rich, clever, you are or even how like-minded we are, compatible or not, it doesn’t matter. You’re hear to look at my shit, kindred spirit or not. I wanna look at what you’ve got too! It shouldn’t matter to you either, just c’mon fucking subscribe will you! That’s as much of the hard-sell I can muster. Like I have anything to offer!
You are a valuable consumer of my art, you are invited to be here.
Do you read outside of your comfort zone? I read above and beyond my own capabilities. I also read people who I believe are on par with my level of experience too. I hope you’re one of those few people who like to mosey in on the underdogs -such as I am- and sit with me a while.
Everyone who I follow or subscribe to, in my opinion, are all so unique and inspiring and brilliant in their own rights. I implore you to have a wee look! In the meantime, I write to you as if you ARE my friend - I even go a stretch further and address you as if you are one of my very own disciples ‘My Chasers’.
I generally (most of the time) like to keep the comments closed but invite you to drop by and introduce yourself in my DM’s if you feel the urge, or need me for anything or even if you’re just curious about something I have sent out to you. I’m not always the most reliable at responding consistently i.e. one day you may get a massive reply the other day just a heart or a ‘I’ll get back to you’ reply. Please don’t let any of that deter you from reaching out. If you’re still reading this introduction to the re-introduction, THANK YOU! Might as well carry on a bit longer. x
Lets Begin:
I’m going to reintroduce myself again for anyone who might find this first, missed it from the beginning, or didn’t know because I haven’t talked about it here (or anywhere else) yet. I’ll try to use my creativity (and poor attention span/one-track-mind) to make this feel as comfortable to read and as entertaining as I can be, or exactly telling you about it as if we were talking over a cuppa tea or coffee. I work better with words though, you might think I’m extra long winded in writing well, in real life, I’d take you all the away around the houses and then forget to get off at the destination and have to start another mad ride on the midlife bus!
A Brief History of Me (Chasey Delaney):
I’ll be 43 in September 2025 and I’ve been writing online since I started Substack 2 or 3 years ago now. I’ve always written in notebooks and on socials a bit of poetry or short musings. I write about life. My work is all creative non-fiction. I started with a lot of ‘poems’ and soon discovered that my strong suit was in letter writer, prose, conversing (not in conversation though!).
I had a career which was going well for about a decade of my life 16-26 which was cut short for multiple reasons including; misadventure* various change in career-path direction* and the onset of early schizophrenia* followed by a complete emotional disconnect (sometimes referred to back in the 90’s as a ‘nervous breakdown’) resulting in hearing voices, debilitating loneliness and two serious suicide attempts where I survived on life support machines in induced comas for a few months at a time. The second try was a close call and happened within a week of being discharged from hospital (I’d been in there for a long time too!).
*misadventure = relocation for a relationship - EPIC FAIL
*change in career-path direction - retrained as a paralegal
*Early Schizophrenia was a onset manifestation of Paranoid Schizophrenia which I have finally controlled under medication.
I have been in a loving (and disjointed, dysfunctional, indestructible) long-term (15 years) intimate relationship with my long suffering partner who I am the long suffering counterpart thereof. We have zero children between us. Child free by choice. We share a beautiful dog called Lola who is almost 2 years old.
What am I doing here?
I write because I can’t NOT write. I can’t sit and do nothing. I am in constant creative mode. Even when I’m not creating, my mind is writing, thinking about writing and music (the ex- was a DJ and I became a wannabe ‘bedroom DJ’ too). I think those two things are my passion precipice. I alternate between both and switch it up a bit incorporation both into my daily routine and stuff I do.
I sometimes have to switch off all my devices, which include YOUTUBE on TV (I don’t watch TV), Chromebook (I’m writing on it now) and my sim-free mobile phone (for socials like Facebook and Instagram and of course the Substack app).
Just so that I can try and relax, read a bit, clear the chaos, stress and anxiety from my head. Relieve myself the pressure of feeling guilty for not getting all these ideas done or down in writing. If I ‘switch off’ have a bath I can get closer to becoming more organised, focused, motivated and more grounded.
I have been dying to get into making an actually video based YouTube channel to capture the essence of my days. I’ve got a bad face for radio, a daft voice for podcasts and I just can’t break down that barrier between; not giving a toss and despairing and overthinking my heightened insecurities.
I guess I’m just scared of the wrong people - Who? - (people who remember me from when I was a headcase and out in the world, like estranged family members and old 'so-called’ friends) - I don’t even share my newsletters with people from IRL (in real life). I write because I love to. I write to keep my mind occupied. I write because it excites me to express (and hopefully some day IMPRESS) myself and others out there, like YOU, too.
I am fortunate in that now I am an undesirable/unreliable employee, with limited capacity to work. I try not to be lazy and dependent on anybody, I live the creative life which I must prefer than to live the lavish life. Luxuries in my world consist of good company, peace of mind from time to time, and a bag or a few of cocaine now and again. Reset the chemical imbalance of my brain. NB: I never write when high. It would be interesting to do so but I am always too busy exorcising my sexuality - nod & wink ;) .xx
What do I write about?
JustClingingOn - Main BLOG - here I try to keep it more wholesome and sentimental family , relationship topics
*LOL*justclingingon - Side BLOG - here I try to tackle deeper topics - still lifestyle choices and shit going on but I try to write it from a more ‘funny’ laughable, lighthearted perspective.
ChasingTheMUSE - Secret Stack - Sort of a spin off place to talk about other ‘imaginary relationships’ The MUSE being a person I admire, obsessions, confessions, talking about being in love there.
ItsJUSTaPOEM - POETRY place - A bit scarce of content at the minute as I’ve lost my love of poetry a little bit. Starting to get back into it - bit by bit - slowly but surely.x
AuralContraband - Music Playlists - I choose themes and tunes and embed individual songs in a long playlist style, images and soon to be incorporating information, reviews, opinions and videos too.
The Daily Chase - THIS ONE! - Just dropping in with a little bit of something on a daily basis. Let you know how life is going. x
Well that’s all for now. Thanks for reading and supporting my work - even by just sharing or hitting the like button. Take it easy! x