My new planner
Hello everyone,
In between doctor’s appointments this Tuesday, I stopped at a Barnes and Noble and bought a weekly planner.
I haven’t properly used a planner since I started teaching. I felt like if I was mostly digital for my teaching life, then I didn’t need one.
But I forgot about my regular life. My creative life. The life I need to work on insisting I have despite how much my job wants to take over.
Plus, I kept using my fiancee’s to-do notepads.
So I bought the planner.
First order of business: this newsletter.
I did a big thing…I upgraded so I can have paid subscriptions and other great features on here.
I’m glad I’m a teacher right now, but I do miss being a reporter and I miss writing. I want it to be a part of my daily life. So now that I’m financially intertwined with this, I’m hoping to put in some hard work and grow. (I tried Patreon, and it still exists, but I want there to be another option as well.)
Some ideas I have:
Links and recommendations
Reviewing books
Interviews!
More zines (Beehiiv also has a storefront you can sell on! Though I am having some trouble uploading my previous zine.)
Poetry and flash fiction
So, share with other creative types!
Currently Reading/Watching/Listening
“The Theory of Dumb” (NY Mag) - my next newsletter is probably going to be all about this “stupid” issue of the magazine and what it brings up
Still reading Emily Austin’s Is This a Cry for Help?, out in January
The podcast “What’s All This Then?” which is all about British culture. I learned what Rounders are! I think?
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