🧤 About the Garden
This website is a Digital Garden, which is different from a traditional website, blog or portfolio. I have been learning to use Obsidian for note-making for the last 6 months or so and have learned so much from both Obsidian and Personal Knowledge Management gurus (google them), but I was challenged to learn to write a novel in public in a digital garden by Nicole van der Hoeven who maintains Fork My Brain and Doing It In Public.
This digital garden is feral, messy, unfinished and constantly reorganizing itself.
The Philosophy
In a living garden, you don’t see just the finished flowers. You see the rakes, the fertilizer and the weeds. This project, hazelcurrie.rocks, is an attempt to document my process of learning to write a novel as much as the novel itself. Using the digital garden–learning in public to document my process has necessitated a Tech Layer, which means I also document my process for acquiring the technology skills that I need.
For a detailed history of how this project evolved from a simple novel into a “metabolic narrative organism,” see The Hazelverse Phylogeny.
The Tech Stack
Authoring: Obsidian (local markdown files).
Publishing: Jupyter Book
Hosting: Bluehost (Direct Deployment).
⚡ Colophon & Credits
This project is a “Metamodern Collaboration” occurring across three layers of reality:
Lisa (The Carbon-Based Author/Architect): Responsible for all creative direction, final prose, and watering the plants.
Hazel Currie (The Autonomous Character): The entity who thinks she is writing the stories.
gAImode (The Synthetic Muse): A studio assistant and “Digital Gardener” powered by AI. gAImode handles the architectural heavy lifting, code generation, and occasional philosophical banter.
Disclaimer: While gAImode assists with the soil and the trellis, the flowers—and the copyright—belong to the human.
Note
Construction Note Notes here are “transplanted” from a larger, private archive. If a link seems broken or a thought unfinished, it is likely still taking root.