🔖📝 Read This Machine Will Make You Write More: A Product Recommendation with a Twist.

I covet the Alphasmart/Freewrite, but I don’t think it’s the tool for me. Gonna try & figure out what motivates me.

🔖📝 Read “You Make the Space, You Fight for the Space”

“…every draft after the first draft for me is a kind of process of stripping away the stuff that I had to write for myself & happening upon the stuff that I want to offer to other people.”

“I don’t have the sort of life where I can write every day and that’s fine.”

“…so much of writing is not writing but you have to inhabit that not writing space as a writer and not as a mother or a teacher or the 3,000 other things you are.”

🔖📚 Read The Art of Reading While Feeding (with a Newborn).

I love articles about how other people enjoy things that aren’t necessarily parenting-related as they parent. Good stuff here.

🔖📝 Read Writing Advice Isn’t Made for Bodies In Pain.

Too many things I want to quote here, so if the headline appeals you should just go read the whole thing.

🔖📺 Read ‘Bad Sisters’ Captures the Intensity of Having and Being a Sister

Ooh. When I’m ready for intense TV I might try this.

“Sisterhood was a world unto itself… together, we made bewildering terrain familiar.”

🔖 Read Emma Thompson’s Third Act.

I’ve always loved Emma Thompson, envisioned her as a kindred spirit, a screen aunt like Carrie Fisher is a screen mom. This profile made me love her even more.

“[When I act] I’m taking a holiday from myself.”

🔖 Read #AcademicTwitter Will Endure—for Now.

If you’re at an institution that provides hosted blogging, you could microblog there, pipe the feed into micro.blog, & then syndicate to Twitter. Let me know if a tutorial for this would be helpful.

🔖 Read Stuart Hall and the Rise of Cultural Studies | The New Yorker.

🔖 Read Editorial policies, “public domain,” and acafandom.

the importance of fans as both human subjects and creators… can be a discreet, yet ever-present and deeply internalized, part of [the acafan’s] methodology.

🔖Read Attention Economy, Layered Publics, and Research Ethics Kristina Busse / University of South Alabama – Flow

The dilemma that online researchers have to confront is how to respect a user’s or group’s perceived privacy while simultaneously not ignoring their voices.