Notes
Want to read: How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information by Jillian M. Hess 📚
Want to read: It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World by Mikaela Loach 📚
Want to read: Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc 📚
I’m trying to see myself as others see me. Would you please tell me:
- When have you seen me happiest?
- What do you come to me for?
- Where do I stand out against my peers?
Qs from Christina Wallace’s The Portfolio Life 📚
🔖📚 Read Roman Polanski, David Bowie, and a New Solution to the Problem of Art Made by Monstrous Men by Laura Miller (Slate).
The magnitude of an artist’s personal transgressions sometimes matters less than the nature of the attachment it disrupts.
Went by the Oscar Wilde house yesterday and the plaque saying he lived there said:
OSCAR WILDE
POET, DRAMATIST, WIT
and I liked it so well I’m changing all my bios to read “Mother, learner, wit.”
🔖🎨 Read On growing alongside your artistic practice (The Creative Independent).
Mother-artist Bailey Elder talks about growing as an artist and being a mother. Elder is starting a blog to interview other artistic mothers!
🔖 Read Durham Officials Push for Affordable Housing in Southpoint Redevelopment.
Pleased with my city’s Planning Commission members.
🔖📝 Read When You Aren’t Sure Whether Your Writing Is ‘Important’ by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic).
You just need to find one person who understands and appreciates what you’re trying to do and why, and then you look for the next person…
🔖📝 Read Kids Will Still Read Banned Books by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic).
Chung doesn’t minimize the harm of book banning, but discusses how it’s impossible (and a bad idea) to try to control kids' reading.
🔖📝 Read How Can You Write About Pain Without Retraumatizing Yourself? by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic).
🔖📝 Read On Pitching and Rejection by Nicole Chung (The Atlantic).
pitching is not just about figuring out what editors or publications may be interested in—figuring out what you are most interested in is vital.
It’s my defense-aversary! I’ve been a PhD for two years. For me, getting the PhD was much bigger than having the PhD has been. Perhaps I’ll write up more reflections on this later.
I haven’t been sharing a lot of travel adventures not because I haven’t been having them, but just because making the time to share is tricky.
But here! Have some photos!
🔖 Read Lois Before Clark: In Defense of the Superhero Girlfriend.
Dreamed I decided to get obsessed with Lois Lane, decided this meant I should actually get obsessed with her, knew this essay by Dr. Ravynn K. Stringfield was the place to start.
🔖📝 Read “I Hate the Idea of Healing” A Conversation with Maggie Smith
One thing that mothering has taught me is that I can’t be precious about where I work. When I work, I cannot demand uninterrupted space and time…If I got completely derailed every time somebody needed me, I’d never do anything.
Finished reading: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett 📚
My first finished Discworld. Reading Piers Anthony feels like coming home (miss me with your takes on him, please, I know his flaws). Reading Terry Pratchett feels like visiting a treasured friend. A lot of fun here.
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Data: *has a personal problem* *does extensive research* Captain Picard, I have done all the research but I do not have the answer to my problem.
Picard: What do you think about the problem, though?
Data: *blinks*
Just another reason I identify with Data.
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Learn how to revise and you will produce a better first book. Remember it and you will enjoy writing the books to follow.
William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
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Revision is unromantic, time-consuming, tiring. It is also the only way to make one’s writing better.
William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
📓 Read Subjectivity and Reflexivity: An Introduction by Franz Breuer, Katja Mruck & Wolff-Michael Roth (Forum: Qualitative Social Research).
A quick introduction to a pair of special issues. Interested to see how the conversation’s advanced.
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Writing isn’t a record of your thinking. It is your thinking.
William Germano, From Dissertation to Book