🔖💻 Read Why bad technology dominates our lives, according to Ron Norman. If you didn’t already believe we were living in the Matrix, this article will convince you we are.

🔖📝 The Heartbreaking Ingenuity of the Mother-Writer ‹ Literary Hub

if you’ve read a book penned by a woman with young children recently, there’s a significant chance it was written while hiding, losing sleep, or using inventive distractions. (Or even all three.)

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The Public Writing Life: How to Lose an Editor in Five Days katieroseguestpryal.com

🔖Read Ravynn K. Stringfield’s essay, Bullet Journaling to Save a Life. Beautiful.

🔖💬 Parents Are Not Okay:

Through these grinding 18 months, we’ve managed our kids’ lives as best we could while abandoning our own.

there is no separation between mother and writer, nor can I tease apart the time I spend tending to my child from the time I spend thinking about my writing, or actually doing it.

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood 🔖📚💬

🔖📚 Sara Fredman’s How Motherhood Helped Me Reject the ‘Father Tongue’ of Academia is both about writing the kind of thing I want to write and is itself the kind of thing I want to write.

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The Loneliness of the Full-Time Writer ‹ Literary Hub lithub.com

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🔖 Ravynn K. Stringfield’s How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy is an energizing read. Psyched to be in her workshop on creative non-fiction for scholars.

💬🔖 “What did I learn today about how to live this life?” This question applies to a lot more than writing.

Catapult | On Writing (with a Day Job) | Richard Mirabella catapult.co