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Howdy!

I’ve recently concluded that my journey with artistic creativity takes a third form.

• 1) I’ve done visual art since I was young
  • 1.5) I did music a while ago but that’s kinda dormant
• 2) I’ve done casual programming on-and-off since middle school (TI-84 / TI-Basic, but moving forward I think I prefer Python. I do miss the black and white pixel screen though, which was a wonderful creative constraint.)

And introducing 3: creative writing.

Influences

I’ve arguably enjoyed it since I was a kid (reading), and the writing side since I was young too. I credit my ability to read dry writing to my love of Wikipedia and The Onion.

Editing rambles into quickly polished?

I recently had a wake-up call in college regarding my subpar editing skills (at least within a small time constraint). I like to ramble and take my time polishing my work. I hear George R. R. Martin does this and is successful, but most of us aren’t bestselling authors. Someone I met this year who I highly respect also pointed out to me (politely, and said to the larger group) that poor editing = assuming people have time to read crappy writing. Borderline, presumptuous?

Absurd headers, like this one

Also – editing gives me a chance for a dopamine hit when I come up with absurd header names. I just saw a research study¹ backing up this sort of “chunking” approach. (Keyword: “Information Mapping”).

It even recommends putting footnotes “here”.

Hey D&&, don’t footnotes belong at the very bottom?

Funny enough, the research study says to do them close to the info at hand. Bottom of the page is probably fine (default in like, Microsoft Word) but I believe when you had to use a typewriter, that’s why some older books had ’em all at the end of the book.

Someone’s probably amended Horn 1969 more recently.²

In addition to landing on the Moon many times since that same summer, a lot of other tech has… improved significantly since the ’60s.

Bueller, Bueller?

“Why are you still here?”

I’m rambling and need to stop procrastinating on a more important task. Perhaps I’ll finish writing this later. Wielding my editing skills more often (when I have the time for it) would help exercise that artistic muscle. That’s what I tell myself to justify all of this anyways.

This page was human-crafted with love and 2010s tech, not AI.

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Footsies

1. Horn et al., INFORMATION MAPPING FOR LEARNING AND REFERENCE (1969).
   Also, I apologize to all of my English teachers for being too lazy to flesh out and format this citation per MLA, APA, or ASA. ↩︎
2. In addition to landing on the Moon many times since that same summer, a lot of other tech has… improved significantly since 1969. It’s easy to believe in 2025, but I heard as early as 2012 that a modern cell phone has more processing power than the computers onboard Apollo 11. ↩︎