Moved Mastodon instances from mastodon.social to indieweb.social because the prior kept timing out. People who were following me shouldn’t need to do anything.
💬📚 “Weekends aren’t time off for parents; they are two long days of caregiving.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
💬📚 “Early on in quarantine, I found myself thinking, ‘What is the most valuable thing I could be doing with my time?’ The answer clearly wasn’t writing an article or making a podcast, but rather, keeping my family, and my community, safe and healthy.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
Just moved a publication on my CV from “In Progress” to “In Press.” An RA gathered data in 2018-19. A professor & myself wrote the first draft in 2019-20. It’s been submitted 2x, accepted w/revisions & revised, w/an additional author. This is fast for scholarly publishing.
🔖📝 Read How to Finish.
Should I force myself to Make New Work or should I let the blank pages stay blank and sharpen pages I’ve already made? Should I go run or walk and shake the fog out? Could the fog be interesting, if I try not to have too much control? Should I read or go look at art or ride the subway back and forth with a notebook?
This is all writing.
🔖📝 Read This Machine Will Make You Write More: A Product Recommendation with a Twist.
I covet the Alphasmart/Freewrite, but I don’t think it’s the tool for me. Gonna try & figure out what motivates me.
🔖📝 Read “You Make the Space, You Fight for the Space”
“…every draft after the first draft for me is a kind of process of stripping away the stuff that I had to write for myself & happening upon the stuff that I want to offer to other people.”
“I don’t have the sort of life where I can write every day and that’s fine.”
“…so much of writing is not writing but you have to inhabit that not writing space as a writer and not as a mother or a teacher or the 3,000 other things you are.”
NaNoWriMo pivot: Back to 50,000 words of literally anything at all
Hello friends!
It’s been slow-going working on my TNG fanfic. Early in October, I toyed with the idea of being a NaNo Rebel with the goal of writing 50,000 words of literally anything at all. At the time, I meant fanfic, original fic, and academic writing.
But at 4 AM this morning, I decided to return to that, with a much more expansive definition of “literally anything at all.”
Here are the things I’ve added to my word count so far:
- Blog posts (including short notes)
- Emails
- Texts
- Slack messages
- Meeting agendas
- Comments on other people’s documents
- Forum posts
And once I log back into social media tomorrow (I’m posting this via micropub), I’m going to add replies and quote tweets.
Why am I being so generous to myself with this definition?
A lot of the time, I use a goal like NaNoWriMo to prove to myself that I “can* write.
But lately, I’ve felt not that I have writer’s block, exactly, but that I’m just at a moment in life when writing is beyond my current capacity, that I just don’t have the bandwidth to write at present.
So I’m using this expansive definition to prove to myself that I do write, that I an writing, even when I feel like I can’t.
How’s NaNo going for you? Can you find a way to be more generous with yourself this month?
Logging out of socials until at least Wednesday. See kimberlyhirsh.com/hello if you want to get in touch.
🔖📚 Read The Art of Reading While Feeding (with a Newborn).
I love articles about how other people enjoy things that aren’t necessarily parenting-related as they parent. Good stuff here.