To Write, I First Must World
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- Somehow though, despite everything, I started blogging.
Over the past few years, I created a few different blogs. But I call them notebooks.
While perhaps easily overlooked, this naming them “notebooks” is important. Traditionally a “notebook” is something you have multiple of … in the paper world, you often have different notebooks for different purposes. Whereas a “blog” feels like you have only one and it’s this monolithic thing. So inherently notebooks are less precious and more context-specific than blogs. (View Highlight)
- While I said I felt like an outsider in the blogging world, it might be more true to say that I’ve felt like an outsider almost everywhere — not just blogging. This is likely why special friendships and work situations in which I’m appreciated for what I’m truly good at are so vital to me. I’ve also enjoyed using the internet to connect with others who feel different, to realize we’re not as alone as we may first believe. (View Highlight)
- This circles back to a larger idea I’ve been thinking about … world-building as self-care. For those of us who feel different, who don’t easily fit into structures of this society or this world, we have to make our own structures, definitions, and taxonomies to feel at home — that is, to build our own world. And while others might be confused why we spend so much energy inventing new names and containers seemingly constantly, it’s important to remember doing this helps us simply exist … so that we can connect in this one world we share. (View Highlight)
title: “To write, I first must world”
author: “laurel.world”
url: ”https://blog.laurel.world/to-write-i-first-must-world”
date: 2023-07-29
source: reader
tags: media/articles
To write, I first must world
Metadata
Highlights
- Somehow though, despite everything, I started blogging.
Over the past few years, I created a few different blogs. But I call them notebooks.
While perhaps easily overlooked, this naming them “notebooks” is important. Traditionally a “notebook” is something you have multiple of … in the paper world, you often have different notebooks for different purposes. Whereas a “blog” feels like you have only one and it’s this monolithic thing. So inherently notebooks are less precious and more context-specific than blogs. (View Highlight)
- While I said I felt like an outsider in the blogging world, it might be more true to say that I’ve felt like an outsider almost everywhere — not just blogging. This is likely why special friendships and work situations in which I’m appreciated for what I’m truly good at are so vital to me. I’ve also enjoyed using the internet to connect with others who feel different, to realize we’re not as alone as we may first believe. (View Highlight)
- This circles back to a larger idea I’ve been thinking about … world-building as self-care. For those of us who feel different, who don’t easily fit into structures of this society or this world, we have to make our own structures, definitions, and taxonomies to feel at home — that is, to build our own world. And while others might be confused why we spend so much energy inventing new names and containers seemingly constantly, it’s important to remember doing this helps us simply exist … so that we can connect in this one world we share. (View Highlight)
title: “To Write, I First Must World”
author: “laurel.world”
url: ”https://blog.laurel.world/to-write-i-first-must-world”
date: 2023-12-19
source: reader
tags: media/articles
To Write, I First Must World
Metadata
Highlights
- Somehow though, despite everything, I started blogging.
Over the past few years, I created a few different blogs. But I call them notebooks.
While perhaps easily overlooked, this naming them “notebooks” is important. Traditionally a “notebook” is something you have multiple of … in the paper world, you often have different notebooks for different purposes. Whereas a “blog” feels like you have only one and it’s this monolithic thing. So inherently notebooks are less precious and more context-specific than blogs. (View Highlight)
- While I said I felt like an outsider in the blogging world, it might be more true to say that I’ve felt like an outsider almost everywhere — not just blogging. This is likely why special friendships and work situations in which I’m appreciated for what I’m truly good at are so vital to me. I’ve also enjoyed using the internet to connect with others who feel different, to realize we’re not as alone as we may first believe. (View Highlight)
- This circles back to a larger idea I’ve been thinking about … world-building as self-care. For those of us who feel different, who don’t easily fit into structures of this society or this world, we have to make our own structures, definitions, and taxonomies to feel at home — that is, to build our own world. And while others might be confused why we spend so much energy inventing new names and containers seemingly constantly, it’s important to remember doing this helps us simply exist … so that we can connect in this one world we share. (View Highlight)