Notes
🔖📝📚 Read The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? by Lara Feigel (The Guardian)
Feigel writes about motherly ambivalence.
🔖 Read Writer Moms: Can We Do Deep Work While the Kids are Home? by Sara Bates.
Before we do… the practical things we need to do in order to create space for deep work, we need to cultivate the belief that our creativity is worth all that trouble.
Want to read: A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle 📚
Want to read: How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents) by Hettie Judah 📚
🔖📝📚 Read I left my baby to write this. How do artists balance creativity and the ache for their child? by Rhiannon Lucy Coslett (The Guardian).
Coslett has as many questions as answers and mentions a lot of books I’m keen to check out.
Want to read: This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris 📚
🔖 Read How Writing and Motherhood Coexist for Author Taylor Harris by Ravynn K. Stringfield (Shondaland).
Great interview! I need to go track down Harris’s work.
🔖 Read Rebecca Solnit on Women’s Work and the Myth of the Art Monster (Lithub).
I want to be an art monster like Grover: lovable and loving and imaginative.
Want to read: Weird Girls by Caroline Hagood 📚
🔖📚📝 Read The Mother, the Artist, and Me by Caroline Hagood (Elle).
This is a great essay about what can happen when we bring our kids into the work of art with us, when our kids become part of our creative community.
Finished reading: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill 📚
I want to write a long response to this one but don’t have time today. It’s less about art-making than I expected. It’s also excellent.
Look, I’d love to play in an improv jam but I can no longer do things that START at 10 pm so I guess I need to organize an improv jam for sleepy people or you know, parents of young children.
Finished reading: Never Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders 📚
I love this so much! Charlie Jane Anders says to invent imaginary friends to hang out with and write about them, which inspired me to write stories about characters friends and I invented a while back and now almost 10K words later I feel capable of writing fiction again. Highly recommend.
Finished reading: Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn 📚
I might love this even more than Legendborn, which I didn’t think was possible. Tracy Deonn goes broader and deeper and is my hero.
I cannot recommend Book Riot’s censorship coverage highly enough. They’re doing great work, with Kelly Jensen leading it. If you’re in the US, you can also get their e-book How to Fight Book Bans and Censorship for $2.99. It’s helping me cut through feeling helpless. 📚
Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I do weird things like buying a Krang cosplay t-shirt or getting all 3 The Librarians movies on Amazon Prime. Tonight, I subscribed to the newsletter of every local theater company I could find. How will daytime Kimberly feel about this?
📺💬🖖🏻 “I can’t say being equal parts irritating and endearing isn’t slightly familiar.” Picard 3x06, The Bounty. IT ME.
Yo Internet, why does the Voyager theme tug at my heartstrings so? I barely remember the show but it always gets me misty.
🔖 Read Should I learn coding as a second language? by Meghan O’Gieblyn (Wired).
the most celebrated historical revolutions (those initiated, that is, by humans) were the result of mass literacy combined with technological innovation.
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blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/03/01/moving-slowly-and-fixing-things-we-should-not-rush-headlong-into-using-generative-ai-in-classrooms/ blogs.lse.ac.uk
Read: blogs.lse.ac.uk
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Why No One Clicked on the Great Hypertext Story wired.com
Read: www.wired.com
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A Beginner’s Guide to Writing IP in Publishing — ERIC SMITH ericsmithrocks.com
Read: www.ericsmithrocks.com
Awesome blog post from Eric Smith full of helpful information.
Being active in the spaces you want to write about, helps build your profile and helps get you seen.
Friends, I cannot stress the importance of community in the bookish and writerly space.
Want to read: A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs 📚