🔖📝 Read Finding the Secret Door Into Your Novel.

When a novel is wick, it has a life about it.

(Have we talked about how I married Dickon, Internet? Because I did.)

🔖📺 Read Wednesday Forgets Why We Fell in Love With the Addams Family.

“The Addams Family films were about family being a haven of pure acceptance and unquestioning love.”

This is a perfect articulation of something I’ve known in my heart since 1991.

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A year of new avenues robinsloan.com

I want to insist on an amateur internet; a garage internet; a public library internet; a kitchen table internet.

Yes! This! (hat-tip to Austin Kleon)

🔖 Read What Is a Strike? Reflections from the Virtual Front Lines of the UC Academic Worker Strike by Mary Jirmanas Saba (LA Progressive).

🔖 Read Attention, trust and GPT3

“If your work isn’t more useful or insightful or urgent than GPT can create in 12 seconds, don’t interrupt people with it.

Technology begins by making old work easier, but then it requires that new work be better.”

🔖💀 Read If You Want to Give Something Back to Nature, Give Your Body by Caitlin Doughty (New York Times Gift Link).

I hope we get human composting in NC eventually. For now, we can donate ourselves to Western Carolina’s body farm.

🔖 Read Creativity as Spiritual Practice by Rabbi Adina Allen (My Jewish Learning).

“Each of us is endowed with creative capacity simply by being human.”

🔖📺📝 Read TV Recaps Taught Me How to Write Criticism by Joelle Kidd.

I love Kidd’s discussion of the role of pleasure in criticism.

🔖📺 Read Wednesday Addams Is the Ultimate Outcast by Miyako Pleines (Catapult).

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🔖 Read Haunted by the Ghost of 2019, Helena Fitzgerald

“A return to 2019 is an attempt to erase all of the losses that happened between then and now, but those losses, like the monster in a horror movie, will devour us if we refuse to face them.”