💬"In these unprecedented times, it’s more important than ever to find better ways to care for and love our neighbors," - Mon Rovîa.
See also: Who says to care is to disobey?
📷 Photo challenge day 25: decay.
My worm farm is amazing! By turning waste into compost these little wrigglers perfom a kind of magic.
It’s also a metaphor for my writing process. I don’t worry if the input is rotten. The output will be quite different.
See also: No writing is wasted
📷 Photo challenge day 24: bloom.
The bougainvillea does get a bit unruly, but it’s probably worth it. #mbjune
📷 Photo challenge day 23: fracture.
A crack in reality at the Edogawa Japanese Garden, north of #Sydney
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Don’t throw away your old notes
Don’t throw out your old notes, even if you feel overwhelmed by them. Here are some helpful ideas on what to do instead.
💬 Back in 2018 I said “the next Web will be fit for humans”.
And how did that little prediction go? Well, I’ve updated my original post with some reflections.
📷 Photo challenge day 22: hometown.
The view from Yerroulbine (Balls Head) on our mid-winter walk in #Sydney yesterday. From this angle Me-mel (Goat Island) seems impossibly close to the CBD.
#mbjune
How Walter Breuggemann shaped me
At its best, a family can be ‘a communal network of memory and hope in which individual members may locate themselves and discern their identities’
📷 Photo challenge day 20: gather.
Six seagulls gather on a sandstone rock at La Perouse, #Sydney.
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What to do when you've made some notes: Start writing
The next step after taking notes is to create a finished piece of writing, acknowledging that the first draft may be disorganized but serves as a foundation for improvement.
📷 Photo challenge day 19: equal.
💬 “I exist in a fractally connected, self-organized universe where everything relates dynamically to everything else” - Jeremy Lent, The Web of Meaning.
Yes, we all do.
#mbjune #zettelkasten
Bob Doto is the author of ‘A System for Writing’.
From reading to note-making to finished draft, his approach connects it all.
I watched his discussion with historian Dan Allosso and took notes so you don’t have to.
#WritingCommunity #NoteTaking #PKM #Zettelkasten #BookWriting #SlowWriting
📷 Photo challenge day 18: texture.
Furry or spiky? Spotted on a boardwalk in the Royal National Park near #Sydney - as featured in day 2.
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What I Learned from Bob Doto about Making Effective Notes and Writing a Book
Historian Dan Allosso led a discussion on Bob Doto’s insights on flexible note-taking and writing processes. It emphasised the importance of iterative development and audience engagement. Here are my notes.
📷 Photo challenge day 17: warmth.
We saw a curious warning at this year’s Vivid, the big winter festival of light in #Sydney. #mbjune
📷 Photo challenge day 16: blur. A smoking ceremony at Prince Alfred Park, #Sydney. #mbjune
Influence is everything: novelty its flimsy dress
This whole article dumbed down by AI summary: Cultural trends often leave behind valuable ideas that merit revisiting rather than being dismissed as unfashionable. And I thought I was being clever.
Finished reading: Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling by Henry Lien 📚
A ‘how-to’ book on kishotenketsu, a Japanese storytelling concept that’s an alternative to ‘the hero’s quest’. Like many such books, it’s worth reading just for the summaries of example stories.
💬"When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway." - James Baldwin. Paris Review, The Art of Fiction No. 78. no. 91, 1984.