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Craft: On Anonymity and Space

This is not a deliberately anonymous site. I'm not hiding here. I'm also not explicitly linking my other sites. This is a creative space for me. For that to work, it needs to be separate. I need a space where I can just write without my name, my work, or anything else being front and center.
A workshop with a workbench, tools on the wall, and woodshavings on the floor.
A carpenter’s workshop by Christen Dalsgaard (via Artvee.com)

This is not a deliberately anonymous site. I'm not hiding here. I'm also not explicitly linking my other sites. I removed those links, in fact. This is a site for The Scrivener's Jest, alone.

This is a creative space for me. For that to work, it needs to be separate. I need a space where I can just write without my name, my work, or anything else being front and center. Before you get the wrong idea, I should assure you that I am not anyone important. I am just someone with a lot of interests that often don't gel well on the same site.

Reading an academic commentary or tech review interspersed between poems, short fiction, and creative nonfiction sounds cooler than it ends up being. Trust me on that, I've tried.

So this is my creative workspace. Consider it a messy work in progress. A lot that I do here will be experimental and not all of it (maybe any of it) will be good. I am not sure where any of this is going, but I am curious to follow it along.