Want to read: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green 📚

TFW you have to go back to the literature and carefully review it to figure out the next step for your data analysis.

I just added a Reading page to my site. It lists every book I’ve read since March 2007. Over time, I’m planning to add links to posts about the books. I’m also going to flesh out a full Books and Reading category. I deleted the one I already had because I had been really inconsistent about putting things in it. If you peruse it and see any books you want to chat about, let’s do!

Want to read: Want by Lynn Steger Strong 📚

🔖 📚 I found myself wanting to read so many of the books on Book Riot’s Best Books of 2020 So Far list that I decided it makes more sense to bookmark the whole list than to add each title individually.

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“…we have little hope of producing excellent writing unless we write a great deal… If we want lots of practice and experience, we can’t limit our writing to times when our mind is operating well… If we write enough, we have at least a chance of producing some excellent bits.”
— Peter Elbow, Writing with Power

📝📚 I’ve started doing The Artist’s Way. Yesterday I read the chapter for Week 1 (which, now that I’m doing CS50x, I really want to rename Week 0). This week is about recovering a sense of safety as an artist, replacing negative statements with positive ones, and confronting fears and blocks.

For me, I don’t have much trouble starting or creating. I have trouble finishing and revising (though I quite enjoy working as an editor for other people). So I’ve been thinking about that, about why I fizzle out at the revision stage. Still working on it.

But just as an example, I’ve been sitting on this accepted with revisions paper for far too long now, and I make a little progress every once in a while, but I get stuck. I thought of something today that might help, at least when dealing with my sense of inadequacy in response to reviewers’ comments. (I need to get over it, I know. I’m working on it.)

I wrote the first draft of that paper four years ago.

I am a different, better writer than I was then.

Now Me can serve as an editor for Then Me.

I’ll let you know if this helps.

I’ll be 39 in a little over a week, so I decided it was time to just lean into becoming my mother. 📚

Finished reading: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo 📚

From NPR: A Competition To Finish Louisa May Alcott’s Story - I mean why have a competition when you could just hire Mary Robinette Kowal? 📚