About
About Aubrie
I write poetry and urban fantasy — mostly about witches. As an auDHD creator I'm interested in developing character-driven stories that deviate from stereotypes about how a "neurocognitively left-handed" person should behave.
In 2008 I mocked my high school bestie for taking Facebook too seriously. By 2012 I was running social media management and content strategy for San Francisco's fledgling tech startups. Then I burned out in a blaze of glory, moved to Portland, dialed it all the way back...and now I'm cobbling together a career as a newbie book designer while writing one of my own!
"Greatest hits" from my resume include Wikimedia Foundation and Jupiter Hotel. You can get my whole career spiel on LinkedIn.
About the site
Crowdsourcing, citizen science projects, mutual aid, and community work can save lives — but/and/also, teach us more optimistic ways to live them. Community is deeply important to me, so naturally my blog would be a digital garden for fellow neurodivergent creatives!
My content here (and elsewhere) centers around learning in public, and encouraging others to do the same. Right now I'm learning how to write heist fiction. I'm also contributing to a larger personal project to see how martial arts training can influence my creative routines.
What's a digital garden?
Anne-Laure Le Cunff defines a digital garden as "an online space at the intersection of a notebook and a blog, where digital gardeners share seeds of thoughts to be cultivated in public." (You could describe Wikipedia as the world's largest digital community garden.)
My posts are divided up into three tags:
- Seedlings: Short posts hashing out quick thoughts and raw ideas
- Growing: Developing concepts I'm exploring
- Evergreen: Fully developed, deeply researched pieces
I love the idea of open-sourcing your learning. Cultivating seeds of knowledge helps you learn while also giving you the opportunity to learn by teaching. Visitors to a digital garden get to see how you do what you do and what the thought process is, and you're more than welcome to activate your own critical thinking skills and weigh in. Everyone gets the chance to learn by doing!
Questions? Thoughts? Email me anytime at hello [at] aubrieintheopen.com.
