Kimberly Hirsh

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.

🔖📚📝 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.

Want to read: Weird Girls by Caroline Hagood 📚

🔖 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.

🔖 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.

Want to read: This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris 📚

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.

I just want to fight censorship 📚 and make theatre 🎭.

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. 📚

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.

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?

Yo Internet, why does the Voyager theme tug at my heartstrings so? I barely remember the show but it always gets me misty.

📺💬🖖🏻 “I can’t say being equal parts irritating and endearing isn’t slightly familiar.” Picard 3x06, The Bounty. IT ME.

🖖🏻 Brent Spiner is my hero.

🔖 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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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.

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Why No One Clicked on the Great Hypertext Story wired.com

Read: www.wired.com

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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

Want to read: The Magician’s Daughter by H. G. Parry 📚

Want to read: Saving Time by Jenny Odell 📚

Want to read: A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs 📚

Scenes I want to explore more: TTRPGs, literary (incl but not limited to sff). What pubs, websites, podcasts, people, other stuff should I check out?

Ah yes, that weird need-to-cry, don’t-know-why feeling… (I suspect this is about the fact that the amount of stuff you have when traveling expands to fill the luggage available.)

🗨️ My response to Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today and I’m Going to Write About It

Happy anniversary, Jason! Is the font on that Notes entry Tahoma or Verdana? I’m having some big early blogging nostalgia looking at it.

I love what you say about the kottke.org being a process. I got the web only a little while before you started kottke.org. I was 14 or 15 and I’ll be 42 this year. Since I first opened up Netscape (after my dad, who ran IT for Duke Law School, told me that Prodigy and AOL were a waste of my time and the web is where it’s at), the web has been a key piece of my identity development and construction.

Here’s to 25 more years or as many as you would like, if that’s too many.