So I’m starting a new feature on WeMinder today, that’s going to make it more friendly to a wider group of people. When I got started creating it, I made the roles of the two people in a chart the caregiver and the little. But really the application could work for all sorts of roles, as long as discipline is part of the relationship. Top, bottom, dominant, submissive, handler and pony, all sorts of roles can use this thing.
But I started with caregiver and little, because you start with what you know, right?
I’ve had it on my list to do for a while. I sat down to think on it, come up with a good user interface, and some options.
And then began really thinking about how to implement it.
Which was a bit like pulling on the loose thread of a sweater, or maybe placing that last domino.
And slipping.
What I thought would be a pretty minor thing is turning out to have all sorts of side-effects and related concerns. Which, I’ll admit, when I first looked at it, made my stomach churn a bit, and I kind of clapped my hands to my face, like this poor guy.
But then right after, I felt just the other way. This is exciting! Because once I started to realize some of the other implications to what I’m doing, it began giving me all sorts of ideas not just for how to do it, but how doing it will make the whole application even better.
I love this process. LOVE IT. I feel the same way when I write fiction, or when I cook. There’s a kind of phase-shift that my brain goes through, where a problem, assumption, omission or mistake transforms and instead becomes a data point, an asset.
As a friend of mine said to me once, long ago:
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”