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Sep. 13th, 2010 10:53 am- On Writing Anxiety, an essay that is centered around academic writing but that I still find valuable as a fiction writer. "As a rule, I tend to avoid the writing advice columns on the Chronicle and Inside Higher Ed like the plague. They tend to compound my anxiety by confirming what I already suspect: I’m not productive enough, I’m not disciplined enough, my writing process is pathological."
- No, clean SOME of the things, which takes that Hyperbole and a Half post as a launching point to discuss how to live with limited spoons, be it from depression or chronic illness. "Because it turns out that actual functional adulthood isn't cleaning all the things! Or emptying out all the emails! Or always going to the bank! Or any of that! No, the first meaningful skill of adulthood? Triage. Or, in less dramatic words, prioritization."
- -isms for the casual user, a post by a librarian on her coworker's attitudes re: disability. I ran into a lot of this in my old job, in disability support services, which just goes to demonstrate some larger idea I can't verb right now. "This is what I work with every day: you're not disabled unless they can see signs of it, but if they can see signs of it, then you're a big stupid problem that needs to be swept away and erased."
- On Cure Evangelism, a post from FWD about pushy temporarily able-bodied people who try to preach the RIGHT cure. "Put simply, cure evangelism involves aggressively pushing a medical treatment or approach to a medical condition or disability on someone, without that person’s consent, interest, or desire."
- No, clean SOME of the things, which takes that Hyperbole and a Half post as a launching point to discuss how to live with limited spoons, be it from depression or chronic illness. "Because it turns out that actual functional adulthood isn't cleaning all the things! Or emptying out all the emails! Or always going to the bank! Or any of that! No, the first meaningful skill of adulthood? Triage. Or, in less dramatic words, prioritization."
- -isms for the casual user, a post by a librarian on her coworker's attitudes re: disability. I ran into a lot of this in my old job, in disability support services, which just goes to demonstrate some larger idea I can't verb right now. "This is what I work with every day: you're not disabled unless they can see signs of it, but if they can see signs of it, then you're a big stupid problem that needs to be swept away and erased."
- On Cure Evangelism, a post from FWD about pushy temporarily able-bodied people who try to preach the RIGHT cure. "Put simply, cure evangelism involves aggressively pushing a medical treatment or approach to a medical condition or disability on someone, without that person’s consent, interest, or desire."