jcd

roguelike developer, poet

I write poetry and code in a cold place.


What I didn't expect when starting a capsule in geminispace was the peripheral creativity it would generate. I started with some writing. Then a gemlog/journal. Some other creative work as well (being cagey; need plausible deniability in case the wrong people find me). All in a month and a half, knowing I have a viewership of maybe, maybe 1? And probably 0.

Having an individual space to tend makes a difference in terms of creative output. It reminds me of when I kept a regularly-updated website when I was younger, where I updated my journal, my writing, my About Me, however ordinary and banal; basically, what I do now over gemini. In terms of my poetry practice, I try to write a lot, but very little actually makes it online, or out into the world. The filter/sieve. The rest of it in my private git repo for my writing, or scattered in notebooks throughout the house. Having an electronic space I can easily update means that I do update it, even if (especially if?) nobody is actually reading.

So now I have my social media presence (tw, coho, masto), my geminispace updates, my writing, my musical practice on classical guitar and viola, my work on Shadow of the Wyrm (and other coding projects), plus I'm editing the next issue of +doc (issue 4, winter 2023), my litmag devoted to long poems. And it doesn't feel overwhelming? I've rebounded from earlier in the pandemic where my brain was fucked and I could only focus on a single thing at a time. But I think I'm back. A bit here, a bit there. My usual cadence. If the alternative is not doing something, I may as well get started.


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