Chance Allen

I didn’t start my day today thinking that I was going to be building a website.

For a long time, most of what I worked on lived in pieces—ideas half-written, projects started and left open, things I’d spend time on without ever really documenting or organizing them, and it wasn’t due to a lack of interest or effort. If anything, it was the opposite. I’d get pulled into something, go deep on it, then move on to the next thing that felt worth figuring out.

Over time, that started to feel incomplete.

Not because I needed everything to be polished or finished (okay, maybe a little bit of that is true), but because there was no record of how things were actually developing. No place to track what worked, what didn’t, and what changed along the way. Everything existed in isolation.

This is an attempt to fix that.

Not by forcing structure onto everything or pretending I’m suddenly going to be hyper-organized, but by giving things a place to land. Somewhere to track what I’m working on while I’m in it, not just after it’s done or forgotten.

This is more or less going to serve as that giant whiteboard I always wanted but could never justify once I thought about how much it would ruin the aesthetic of my home. Fun fact—I still have a three-inch binder overflowing with drawings, writing, poems, quotes, hand-drawn engineering models, and a deep dive into the effects of MSG on the body. (Maybe I’ll post some things from that one day…)

I tend to move between things that hold my attention. Sometimes that’s building out characters for D&D or working through a campaign I keep telling myself I’ll actually run once I get over the idea that it has to be great and find enough responsible people who will consistently show up. Other times it’s refining a recipe, dialing in a photo, or trying to understand how a new tool actually works beyond the surface level. The medium changes, but the pattern doesn’t.

Up until now, all of that has mostly lived in my head or scattered across notes, messages, and half-finished drafts. There hasn’t been a central place to see how those things connect or evolve over time.

That’s what this is.

Not a finished product. Not a portfolio. Not something cleaned up and presented like it all came together neatly.

Just a place to work through things as they happen.

Some of what ends up here will be more complete. Some of it won’t. There will be things that change, things that get dropped, and things that stick around longer than expected. That’s part of the process, whether it’s documented or not, so it might as well be visible.

Right now, there are a handful of things already in motion. This site is one of them. A recipe book that’s slowly taking shape. My first D&D campaign, being built out piece by piece. Ongoing experiments with photography and AI tools that I’m still trying to fully understand.

None of those are finished. That’s kind of the point.

This just gives them somewhere to exist while they’re becoming something.

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