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Don't buy shit, write your book

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I have had way too many projects die because I burned through all my energy talking about them rather than working on them. On the flip side, I find that not talking about them at all leaves them feeling inert and less real. So, think I may have to steal this genius idea.

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a piece from my calligraphy professor Carl Kurtz. September 1, 1939 "We Must Love One Another or Die"

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📝A rare last-minute editing slot just opened up in my calendar! Reach out if you're looking for a second set of eyes on an academic or non-fiction writing project - we could be getting it off your desk before you know it. www.kateturnereditor.com/contact

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I just got an email from a student who read my book for their research and wanted to let me know they really enjoyed it. This has brighten up my day, and I encourage you all to write to authors to tell them you enjoyed reading their book. We all need this extra boost right now.

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It's more than a little difficult to hear yourself think right now. And if you can't do that, it's pretty much impossible to take meaningful action, show up thoughtfully for your community, or create your best work. Here's some gentle ways to create more space for your own ideas.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Some valuable insider insight on starting a successful developmental editing business

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Today's the last day to subscribe before I send out my next writing and seasonality newsletter. Featuring musings on: writing through The Darkness, making space in your mind for your own ideas (cc: The Darkness), and Toni Morrison's ideal writing space. www.kateturnereditor.com/newsletter

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Been thinking a lot about the particular role that writers and editors can play in ~These Times~. Historically, we have been vital voices in countering misinformation and hopelessness, but things are looking a lot more complicated in this buck wild information ecosystem.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re trying to de-Meta your life right now, just a reminder that Zuck also owns WhatsApp - which is a very heavily used app for many of us. Talking to lots of people recently who had forgotten or had never known this was the case. Highly recommend Signal as an alternative.

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I have a little plea and it's this: please keep posting about things that aren't The Horrors. I am not saying to not look at or be informed about The Horrors. What I am saying—what I am genuinely kind of begging you to do—is keep posting about books and movies and sunsets and pets and joy. Please.

submitted 35 days ago • 488 comments

Anyone on Bluesky planning on partaking in Fun-A-Day this Feb (or doing it this month)? Thinking of posting my daily thing here. If you don’t know wtf I’m on about-it’s a cool daily art challenge. Info below from the Philly contingent (who do theirs in January) #funaday25 #capregionfunaday25

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If you cant afford art, or cant draw or whatever yourself, USE PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES NOT AI.

submitted 51 days ago • 29 comments

hello hello! are you in or near Bristol? would you like to come to a public event where I will try and make the case that the pandemic turned the world into a more introverted place but that's an urge we need to resist? are you free on March 3? then do come along: www.meetup.com/bristol-huma...

submitted 40 days ago • 48 comments

One thing before tomorrow: Use your local libraries. Get your card. Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks. Recommend titles for purchase (usually online). Attend promoted activities. Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires. Tell your kids that libraries are good. They are. 📚

submitted 40 days ago • 183 comments

Having lots of conversations about balancing the need to avoid familiar cycles of reactivity/news burnout with the ethical requirement to stay engaged. Today I’m leaning more into the former in the hopes it will build a better foundation for the latter. (1/?)

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Oh yes, I love to be charged more for a service I very much do not want and did not ask for.

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Periodic editor's reminder to use "TK" for your placeholder copy, because it's easier to catch at a glance than whatever your gentile social media producer might use instead

submitted 74 days ago • 67 comments

Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵

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I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.

submitted 86 days ago • 81 comments

Soo I'm 2 issues in & already behind schedule on my newsletter. BUT it's coming soon-ish? If you'd enjoy some cosy thoughts on winter writing, including ideas for free and low-cost ways to build a writing practice in 2025, sign up for The Writing Nook:

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

libro.fm forever

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If you've already started scheming about all the writing you're going to get done next year, get off on a good foot by joining one of Katherine's excellent scholarly writing groups, starting in January.

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OK, folks. By popular demand I went ahead and created another starter pack for K-12 History and Social Studies teachers because you can never follow too many teachers. Thanks for sharing. Let me know if you would like to be added. 🗃️ go.bsky.app/4yrJKvt

submitted 96 days ago • 19 comments

The problem with pieces like this, which are countless, is the prevailing media assumption that left-of-center Americans need constant corrective instruction about how to be in and engage with the world, whereas right-of-center Americans are simply to be observed in awe, like rainbows or mountains.

submitted 99 days ago • 343 comments

Social Media must be overthrown and replaced by Social Persia, which will in turn be conquered by Social Macedonia.

submitted 103 days ago • 48 comments

More detail: When booksellers get pre-orders, it's a quantitative and qualitative signal that there is like something here about a book. The avalanche of new books out there is hard to communicate if you're not in the industry, and pre-orders are one of vanishingly few signals. It is a real thing!

submitted 107 days ago • 6 comments

What I love about this Officially Verified Bluesky Press Lists is it includes a real mix of people at major legacy media outlets, independent organizations, and freelancers. We can promote a diverse media when billionaires don't control what you see. Let's keep it growing! go.bsky.app/U9juDW4

submitted 102 days ago • 328 comments

A gif that comes up for my name… [Decided not to go for one of the dozens involving the Princess of Wales looking slightly “sassy.”]

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Closes today! Open to all history peeps in the UK. ‘an important opportunity to better understand experiences of disabled, chronically ill, D/deaf, blind/partially sighted and neurodivergent historians and to explore the teaching and studying of disability history in UK Higher Education.’

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

submitted 109 days ago • 335 comments

Pretty fucked up, NYT! The NYT Tech Guild is still on strike. Don't play the crossword!

submitted 110 days ago • 44 comments

one-fifth? holy shit! I love this so much.

submitted 110 days ago • 6 comments

I developed my political awareness in the same way as so many other Millennials: by listening to Rage Against The Machine on the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 soundtrack, followed shortly by the invasion of Iraq

submitted 113 days ago • 97 comments