Bird droppings

Social media over the last 15 years has been interesting. Waaaaay back in 2005, I started my first online blog over on livejournal. The archives of that blog are still archived here on this dreamwidth account.

When livejournal was sold to the russians, I along with a lot of other people, headed out to Facebook to do my postings and journaling. That was fine until around 2016 when I learned more about how Facebook was using all of our information to help fuck up our society. Since then, I've been mostly living on Mastodon.

My wife of 11 years is leaving me, and with her departure, I'm re-evaluating a lot of things in life. One such thing is the lack of creative writing that I've been doing for the past 10 years. In part due to the loss of livejournal in my life, and in part due to the fact that my wife expressed an attitude of being critical of what she considered "bad art," I've been hesitant and/or to do much in the way of creating written art. I'm trying to change that.

I think one of the things I need is a place to put my writings and nonsense. Here seems like a reasonable place. It's the best continuation of my livejournal space from 2005 and gives me an opportunity to use the same basic format to create longer forms of writing. I don't really have a lot of friends on this platform, though... I left most of them back on livejournal or on other social networks.

But as I was putting together a really weird "laptop" project in the aftermath of this ongoing divorce, I found myself thinking about keyboards and writing software for the first time in over a decade. I even pulled out my old copy of Ommwriter and did a little poetry and writing with a prompt.

It felt like coming home to an old friend.

Thing about me. I used to write constantly. Lots of poetry, a few short stories, lots of essays, tons of journaling, and lots of other little things. Some of it even won awards of a sort. It really hasn't been much of a part of my life for most of the past 10 years. But I want to change that and bring it back to my life. I want to start sharing my thoughts in a journal like fashion again. I want to write again.

So let's do it. Let's write.

I seem to have a cycle of consumption and creation. I'll go for a few weeks working "creating" my world, and then I'll spend a few weeks "eating" my world. You might come up with other terms for this cycle. Perhaps work vs. play? Nah, that's no good. Perhaps active vs. passive.

This weekend, I got my plane finished, installed my air conditioner, put up a bunch more decorations, and cleaned up my apartment some more. After that, I feel like I've shifted into a more passive mode. I've been playing Orbiter, watching TV shows, and playing video games the past few days. I imagine that I'll be switching back in the other direction in a few more days, as there are a few projects that are calling to me.

I've got a bunch of projects simmering right now, and a few are definitely calling out to me to put time into. Learning to sew is moving up in interest, as I may have access to a sewing machine a coworker may be selling me. I've got a drawing project I need to put some time into. A couple Burning Man projects to sink some planning/design time into. And a software project that's been sitting on my list for ages that I actually need to get back to and move to the next step with.