Working With Your Hands Is Good for Your Brain. “Handwriting was associated with ‘far more elaborate’ brain activity than keyboard writing, the researchers found.” https://t.co/n36hGfTF9M #WritingCommmunity#writinglife#Mindfulness
interesting! “I would summarize where it fits in the landscape as: more profits than legacy publishing and better distribution than self publishing.” A New Publisher Promises Authors 'the Lion's Share of the Profit' #WritingCommunity#amwriting#writers https://t.co/FFJ7udbjrX
“‘There is joy, and there is rage’: the new generation of novelists writing about motherhood.” There are books, here, to explore. Exciting! #WritingCommunity#books#motherhood https://t.co/cQP9AAybdH
Prestigious literary prize awarded to novel written with help from AI. “I would say about five percent of the book quoted verbatim the sentences generated by AI.” And it begins…#WritingCommunity#writers#writerslife https://t.co/iO2NJfvtNt
Interesting perspective. “…the limiting factors on women’s writing time were earning a living and housework, with caring responsibilities next. Writing was a ‘third shift’ in already packed days.” #WritingCommunity#Writer#WritingLife https://t.co/l6VGx5GfQQ
“Whether it was stalkers hellbent on ‘review bombing’ them…or their nemeses – jilted ex-lovers, whatever – it was very easy for trolls to pan people on Goodreads.” Interesting conversation. #WritingCommunity#book#writers
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PEN America responds to Elizabeth Gilbert delaying new novel: "We hope Gilbert might reconsider and we urge others to rally around the on-time publication of her book... literature and creativity must not become a casualty of war," says @SuzanneNossel. https://t.co/vBuuzVhRaL
@SWekstein Thank you for this. I’ve been gently suggesting this to a couple writers in our writing group and getting a lot of defensive pushback. I’m going to share this thread. Or maybe it’s more of a bring a horse to water but...
"It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them."
~ Aldous Huxley