"Oh, you're writer but not published." That is the yuckiest comment and side eye to endure...yet I remain courageous and keep identifying as a writer while clenching my stomach each time.
By the way if there were a Big Kids' Choice Award for the best children's actor, Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno would win hands down. #IYKYK #TheElectricCompany
17 minutes left on the podcast. What's wild is also my insecurity over reading. I look at a book and I'm like, no way I'm going to pay attention to all those squigglies in hours of silence. How in the world? And so I try reading longer and harder books to get rid of this insecurity, and it doesn't work. After every book, I marvel at the experience and wonder how I did it/am going to do it again.
Thinking more about this. Really the things that can seem bizarrely sinister about the prospect of reading are the same things that can seem bizarrely sinister about anything - all that complexity! How am I driving?! How am I remembering to breathe and blink?! Wtf is a computer?! But like, yeah, its a hallmark of the age that there are so many resources to help smooth over certain horrifying complexities (e.g. the "misery index" that plane companies use to understand their customer), but none really for reading other than grade school teachers setting aside "reading time" in class or something. I guess audible could be seen as a company trying to soothe that complexity, but idk I'm pretty good at reading but I suck at listening to prose
Like 30% through the podcast. Speaking of our "invisibility" - i love how any word document looks like a good piece of writing from ten feet away cuz, like, it's all just little squiggly shapes no matter what - alotta visual artists don't get to experience that. Like, an amateur painting looks an amateur painting ten feet away, but the further you stand from my paragraphs, all you know is it's paragraphs- you don't know if I'm Faulkner or not! I might be! (Terrible repercussions for the egos of writers who never get read, ofc)
"Oh, you're writer but not published." That is the yuckiest comment and side eye to endure...yet I remain courageous and keep identifying as a writer while clenching my stomach each time.
By the way if there were a Big Kids' Choice Award for the best children's actor, Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno would win hands down. #IYKYK #TheElectricCompany
Haha, good for you, Alisha. Also, they should rename the award after Freeman and Moreno!
17 minutes left on the podcast. What's wild is also my insecurity over reading. I look at a book and I'm like, no way I'm going to pay attention to all those squigglies in hours of silence. How in the world? And so I try reading longer and harder books to get rid of this insecurity, and it doesn't work. After every book, I marvel at the experience and wonder how I did it/am going to do it again.
I understand that experience. Reading is one of my favorite things, but there are so many distractions in the world today.
Thinking more about this. Really the things that can seem bizarrely sinister about the prospect of reading are the same things that can seem bizarrely sinister about anything - all that complexity! How am I driving?! How am I remembering to breathe and blink?! Wtf is a computer?! But like, yeah, its a hallmark of the age that there are so many resources to help smooth over certain horrifying complexities (e.g. the "misery index" that plane companies use to understand their customer), but none really for reading other than grade school teachers setting aside "reading time" in class or something. I guess audible could be seen as a company trying to soothe that complexity, but idk I'm pretty good at reading but I suck at listening to prose
Like 30% through the podcast. Speaking of our "invisibility" - i love how any word document looks like a good piece of writing from ten feet away cuz, like, it's all just little squiggly shapes no matter what - alotta visual artists don't get to experience that. Like, an amateur painting looks an amateur painting ten feet away, but the further you stand from my paragraphs, all you know is it's paragraphs- you don't know if I'm Faulkner or not! I might be! (Terrible repercussions for the egos of writers who never get read, ofc)
An excellent point, Adam!
Yes! SISters unite!