Statuary Garden

This is a new experience for me, a new way to write and blog, but also something I've thought about before, and now the tools are there to make it quite easy. (more on tools later)

Around the turn of the century, I was thinking of a science fiction-esque sort of site, with lots of links (I got hung up on them being auto-created, something I may still consider). I considered it a digital sculpture, something that would slowly build up until you had a whole thing that told a story about a place or thing or something. It was an idle idea that never really went anywhere or got any effort from me, so it never existed.

I was intrigued by the dungeon23 project as a way to have a daily creative practice. I don't particularly like megadungeons, so that part of it wasn't interesting, but as someone who has been a GM for 40 years now, I've always got some worldbuilding going on, and I thought this might be a nice thing to do.

I started it up in Obsidian a wiki-like note-taking tool, then realized it should be easy to convert markdown files to a website. I'd seen gatsby doing it, and lo and behold there were some obsidian to gatsby starter projects. Then I got sick, and that put me behind a bit, but today I've almost got this thing into shape, and working.

Soon it'll be on a website and I'll be effectively blogging again, but instead of making perfect articles, I'll be creating little sculptures and some larger ones that form into what I hope is a fun experience as well as documentation for a world (in the case of my dungeon23 project).