Fool's Verse

In an act of incredible community, the indomitable  ktrey  of d4 Caltrops created a  table of potential topics for new entrants to the RPG blogosphere. I chose to see this generous and welcoming gesture instead as a gauntlet, and for the time being will eschew original thought and instead power my way through as many topics as possible before I am either broken under the weight of self-imposed limitations, or annealed in the fires of ambition.  I was inspired to undertake this folly after seeing Dan  do the same. I highly recommend you read their  evocative yet concise approach to this imagined challenge, before bearing witness to a far less nuanced and entertaining attempt. Their  essay  on creativity as alchemy catalysed a long dormant ambition to actually put the words in my head out into the world, and anyone with a passing interest in the esoteric and a fascination with creative endeavour should read it immediately. The only advantage I hav...

This has to start incredibly earnestly.  Making things is hard.  I could blame the State of Things. It's D ead Internets infected by machines that feed on art and rage.  It's living under a Meritocracy, brutal social conditions antithetical to creativity.   It's the World pressed against the glass, humming in my pocket, crouched in my ear.  But really, making things is hard because I'm afraid to fail. To make something sub-par or derivative or embarrassing, to pour parts of myself away into something that simply doesn't matter. This is the worst possible mindset for pursuing creativity.  This blog, these offerings, are an attempt to fight that destructive urge and instead make something, even though it's hard.