15 years of blogging (and 3 reasons I keep going) - Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) writes about why he blogs. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about blogging as a medium and a genre, and its value independent of content marketing. Kleon’s added fuel for my meditations here.
New profile pic. I think we all knew that a headshot where I look like I dgaf would give way to one where I’m clearly a marshmallow before too long.
Finished reading: The Freelance Academic by Katie Rose Guest Pryal 📚
🔖Lee Skallerup Bessette sums up so much:
Just because its hard, doesn’t mean it’s good and when everything is hard and you have issues with executive functioning, how can you even ever tell the difference?
A quick note on MEXICAN GOTHIC 📚
This book is SO GOOD, but I don’t feel I can write a review that does it justice. It is a pitch-perfect gothic novel and also super gross. After reading all the secrets revealed, I want to go back and re-read, looking for signs. Every layer of gross and spooky in this book has an even grosser and spookier layer underneath it.
My first PSL of the season. I waited until Bean Traders had them.
I was already clued in to post-ac/alt-ac possibilities before beginning my PhD. For some reason, seeing the rapid proliferation of post-ac advice this fall is increasing my anxiety rather than reducing it.
I need to re-write my dissertation proposal, for myself.
I’ve been a bit stuck with my dissertation, and only partly due to parenting and chronic illness. I wasn’t quite sure what had me stuck before. I thought it was a need to develop a solid workflow. John Martin told me about a really cool writing tool called Gingko. It overwhelmed me at first because I could stand to see all those columns on screens at once, but once I found the keyboard shortcut for writing in fullscreen, I decided I would try using it to write my dissertation.
I started to get a new “tree” ready, and looked at another dissertation to help me model my structure.
But as I did that I realized…
Usually, a person’s dissertation proposal can become a significant chunk of the dissertation itself, with some expansion.
My dissertation proposal as originally written does not represent my dissertation as executed anymore.
I need to re-write my proposal, but for me.
Me, browsing Rebecca Schuman’s (@pankisseskafka) website after reading about her in Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s (@krgpryal) book, THE FREELANCE ACADEMIC: Wait, the mother of Quit Lit and the writer of THE 90s ARE OLD is the same person? 😍 #JustGoAheadNow
I’m out on timelines and feeds for a while, folks. Taking some time to be really intentional about my input.