🔖 Read “I Feel Very Uncomfortable When People Call Me A Writer”.

Great conversation between Sara Fredman & Dr. Merve Emre. WRITE LIKE A MOTHER is a newsletter fave for me right now. Highly recommend.

🔖 Read Lost Time in COVID.

Overall, we have, of necessity, learned to value the quality of our time over the quantity of it, and to work with the rhythms of our energies.

🔖 Read Everyone should blog.

🔖 Read Celebrate by Writing.

🔖 Read True gender-neutral clothing must go beyond fancy sweatpants.

I love the idea of a shop where clothing is arranged by type (shirts here, dresses there) and silhouette (narrow shoulders over here, broad hips over there).

🔖 Read 6 ways to deal with anxiety and uncertainty this winter.

One way to embrace radical uncertainty is to develop coping mechanisms. This NPR piece suggests some possibilities.

🔖 Read What the Aztecs can teach us about happiness and the good life.

This is an excellent way to think about how to live.

🔖 Read There Is No “Best of” List From Me This Year. 📚

Beautiful writing from Kelly Jensen: how books impacted her this year; where she is in her journey as a writer, book blogger, reader. I’ll revisit this as I think about how I want to engage with & around books in 2022.

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All Your Followers Will Not Buy Your Book - by Kate McKean katemckean.substack.com

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Yes, Social Media Can Sell Books. But Not If Publishers Sit on Their Hands | Jane Friedman janefriedman.com