I already spend very little time on Facebook but now their mobile web UI has little notification badges on each icon even when there are 0 notifications so as I’m not looking to increase anxiety in my life, I logged out.
No YOU’RE looking up contact juggling tutorials on YouTube to send to your spouse.
In our work team meeting today we spent a significant chunk of time discussing the history of Star Trek fanfic and its trajectory from zines to web to fanbound books. And it ended up being relevant to work stuff. I love my job. 🖖🏻📚
A little less than 12 years ago, I attended my first American Library Association Annual Conference. I’ve been to 3 more since then. My advice: focus on YALSA and GameRT. Get as many free comics as possible. If you’re exhibiting, offer candy.
Literati: Hey if you don’t want to read a super cool book about the deep ocean as part of the Atlas Obscura book club, log in and change bookclubs by the end of the day.
Me: archives email
Want to read: Meet Me by the Fountain by Alexandra Lange 📚
🔖 Nathanial White writes Disturbing the Comfortable: On Writing Disability in Science Fiction. I freewrote 1100 words today on reading disability in Star Trek. I think Piers Anthony’s Killobyte might be good to put in conversation with White’s novella.
This Is How I Do It (TL;DR: Piecemeal and Flexibly)
Katy Peplin has a great Twitter thread on the difference between sharing your process with “This is how I do it” and “This is how you should do it.”
one thing i think about a lot as a coach and person:
— Katy Peplin (@ThrivePhD) June 15, 2022
there's a BIG difference between "this is how i did it" and "this is how it works best / this is how you should do it"
I try to write with the former attitude. Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega does this and it’s one of the things I most appreciate his writing.
I thought today I’d share one thing that address how I do it, wherein it = almost anything in life at all.
Piecemeal. In teeny, tiny fragments. I’ve written before about parenthood and kintsugi.
Yesterday, I was thinking about how I want to write more, and I had a thought about writing that was so good, I wanted to capture it. This happened in literally the one minute before M’s swim lesson started, so there I was on a deck chair by the pool with M basically in my lap (and he’s big, y’all, I love having him in my lap but it’s very different now), and took out my phone and typed out these words:
There will never be time to write. This is my life now. Prismatic. Fragmented. The bits inside a kaleidoscope. They make beautiful patterns and they can be arranged in new ways but they aren’t large. So how do I write in the fragments?
“How do I _______ in the fragments?” is the guiding question of my life. There is perpetually a giant pile of laundry at the foot of my bed. I do put the laundry away, but I put it away one item at a time, while I’m getting dressed and in between finding the things I want to wear on a given day.
I’m working on binding a little pamphlet-bound notebook for M. I fold a page here and there when I can.
This is how I get things done. It’s necessitated by two things: parenthood, which carries with it the eternal threat of interruption, and chronic illness, which means that while my mind loves and craves routine, my body disrupts my ability to stick to it.
So I live by this mantra: what I can, when I can.
And that’s how I get stuff done.
🔖 The Bullet Journal blog has a great interview with Tiago Forte, author of Building a Second Brain, which comes out today. I hope to get a full review up soon. Lots of good stuff in this book, will be revelatory for some & leveling up for others. 📚
🔖 Today’s #1000WordsOfSummer letter is all about letting writing be fun and silly. I needed to read this today. Maybe you do, too. 📝