Kimberly Hirsh

🔖📺 Read Why Only Murders in the Building Is the Most Romantic Show on TV.

🔖 Read Amia Srinivasan: “Feminism is a political practice, not just a set of ideas”.

Want to read: The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan 📚

Want to read: Several Short Sentences about Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg 📚

🔖 Read Star Trek’s food replicators may be on their way to your kitchen. 🖖

I’m planning a historical witchy YA fantasy, it’s historical because it’s set in the 90s, the soundtrack is all Garbage & Letters to Cleo, AMA. (Maybe a little Rasputina.)

Replaced “Extremely online since 1995” in my bio with “Human cabinet of curiosities,” perhaps the most accurate way I’ve ever described myself.

Attempted a Hashimoto’s/PCOS friendly version of my great-grandmother’s goldenrod eggs: gluten-free bread, ghee, tapioca flour, almond milk. Not bad. Next time I’ll use a gf flour blend bc tapioca alone makes the sauce a bit too gelatinous.

Witch influencer or Indiana Jones villain? You decide.

(Image: A white woman with dark hair wears a black wool Panama hat.)

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💬📚 “Creativity is play, but for shadow artists, learning to allow themselves to play is hard work.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

💬📚 “Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

💬📚 “It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY

🔖 Read Please Keep Doing Virtual Book Stuff After The Pandemic.

Jessica Pryde makes a great argument for maintaining virtual and/or adding hybrid book events even when it’s safe to hold them in person.

💬📚 “…if we can become one-tenth as good at positive self-talk as we are at negative self-talk, we will notice an enormous change.” Julia Cameron, THE ARTIST’S WAY.

I realized reading Week 1 of THE ARTIST’S WAY that most of my negative self-talk isn’t modeled on how other people talked to me (I was blessed with supportive friends, family, and educators) but rather on how my parents talk to themselves. My kid said “Get it together, M” to himself the other day which I know is something he’s heard me say to myself. I’m trying to speak to myself more kindly for his sake as well as my own.

Asking for a friend: what do you think Kaz Brekker’s D&D class would be? Rogue? I feel like rogue. (The friend is me.) 📚📺🎲

🔖 Read What Reading Looks Like When You’re a Full-Time Author (Book Riot).

Mindy Thomas & Guy Raz have some great advice for writers of all ages in their National Book Festival video. 📚📝

🔖🎭 Read On and Off Stage: The Deep-Seated Bias in the Culture of American Theatre.

In addition to thinking about whose plays get produced, promoted, and awarded, Kayser makes me think about who gets to be critics and who can afford to go to shows.

Want to read: Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender by Casey Kayser 📚🎭

🔖📚 🍿 Some good things I’ve read so far today:

• Revisiting The Flight of Dragons, a Forgotten Gem of ’80s Fantasy (Tor.com)
• How Harrow the Ninth Uses the Language of Fanfiction to Process Grief (Tor.com)
• “What did I know of mortal babies?”: Six Parenthood Lessons From CIRCE (Book Riot)
• Out of the Closet and Out of Time: On Being an Old(ish) Mother (Literary Hub)

Want to read: Visual Research Methods: An Introduction for Library and Information Studies by Shailoo Bedi and Jenaya Webb, Eds. 📚

Me today: Ooh what an interesting journal article! I wonder if I could pitch a research brief on it to my client for the company blog.looks closer sees author of article is, in fact, my client laughs at self

A lot is bad but my kid is dancing to Tank! by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts and that’s pretty great.