@nancybaym After a hiatus of ... 2.5 years?!? ... it's time for another edition of Irene Wanted You to See This:
@nancybaym After a hiatus of ... 2.5 years?!? ... it's time for another edition of Irene Wanted You to See This:
The media, at least those that are even bothering to cover it, are truly missing the forest for the trees. The disaster of the bird site is not its garbage performance and functionality “clunkiness.” It’s that it’s a goddamned misinformation fascist propaganda engine. That’s it. That’s the story. I’ve been trying to get journalists to cover it. Guess I have to do it myself.
Scholars often don't share that they use #editors. So many scholars think they're bad writers, because look at all those wonderfully written things they read.
Those well-written things were edited. Always. I'm editing something right now at an average of 35 edits/page
This is the 4th book by this scholar, well-established and awarded in their field. And this book needed to be edited into one of those wonderfully written things. #academicChatter #AcademicsOfMastodon #amediting #publishing
That good-problem-to-have when you're starting a piece and you have the perfect first-two-measures, but then keep botching what follows -- not by writing anything bad per se, but rather, stuff that's happening too soon.
*breathe*
and let the music
*breathe*
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