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//--2/2/2021--- Feb. 2nd [General]
There’s always something enigmatic about a new year, the passing of time, and the shifting perspectives therein. Add on top of that the looming close
of a personal decade and the introspective effect is only amplified. It’s often said that age is just a number, but in reality it’s a chronicle: a spanning log of events and recollections,
of choices and delays—and for too long in my own life delay has been the default.
To say my creative journey has been rocky would be an understatement. Decisions, circumstances, and drifting focus have all contributed to this
mired trail; but in having taken every wrong turn, detour, and distraction, my true aims only became more clear.
And while under certain metrics I've progressed quite alot over the years, to the more personal and important avenues I've been completely stagnant.
A prime example of such was with the original version of this website and its death, almost five years ago.
Once the proud home for my creative endeavors, there came a digital moment when it was forced to be frozen. In initial creation, it had been built
with a design template, one whose colors and styling seemed perfectly matched to my preference. But then after years of existence, the hosting company "rennovated" all of their interface options
and deleted the format. Thankfully my website wasn't retroactively purged, but it meant that if I made any edit or post to it, the phantom template that held everything together would be
overwritten and the website's appearance would be deformed to fit whatever "modern" design that was arbitrarily closest.
It was maddening as I didn’t want another aesthetic, and the feeling of having my website stolen out from under me was something I would not accept. And
so in defiance I refused to update it and immediately looked at other hosting platforms, but none of them had that lost template. Eventually it became apparent that there was only one option left:
I would have to learn HTML code and program my own website template from the ground-up. But it was not a task I was prepared for.
Work had grown to take significantly more of my time and after little observable progress in learning to program it, I simply stopped as life further
interfered. It was a crushing defeat. The website that had sparked the greatest creative era for me— giving rise to Wars of Greuador and the early drafts for Shattered Void—now
stood derelict as a snapshot in time and epitaph of former self.
Months and even years would go by with very little creative progress, a symptom of many causes but in part from having lost their destination. Though
despite it all, several more drafts of Shattered Void were eventually completed and its end drew closer in sight.
Looking back now, it’s hard to believe that seven years have passed since first starting the book and even worse to realize much of the time was wasted.
Though sometimes things have to first sit in idle before they can run, and so far for my journey it has been true. In January, I finally returned to the abandoned task of learning HTML and
successfully recreated my phantom website template and even enhanced it—one page / line of code at a time. Additionally, I also purchased my freedom from the betraying platform and moved my
domain to a host of more suitable element.
It's been quite the trek so far, but still much remains to be accomplished and this renewed venture is far from over…
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