events/2024-12-03-web-writers-workshop
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Web Writer's Workshop Online was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-12-03.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/hwc-writing-dec-2024
Welcome to the Web Writing Workshop! This meetup is about all things writing: what we're working writing about, questions we have about writing, how to collaborate on projects, and more!
Below, we can take notes throughout the session.
Participants
- James - https://jamesg.blog
Tracy Durnell - tracydurnell.comSara JakΕ‘a - Sara https://sarajaksa.eu
Yousef Amar - https://yousefamar.com/memo/log/
jo - https://dead.garden- Jeremy - https://takeonrules.com
- Madi - normalizeheart.com (new one in progress)
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Notes
- Welcome to the workshop!
- Drafts
- Tracy cleared up her drafts, removing a lot of them
- Drafts can be created from not knowing how to write something
- Drafts can also be something we were excited about, but we no longer do
- Energy/Spark can be important to finish something
- Perfectionism
- Hit publish (you can revisit later)
- blogging as oral culture - https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/a-place-to-talk
- When do we write
- There are two peaks in the day
- Late in the evening
- Have to be done in one sitting, otherwise it will not get published
- Do you write in commute?
- It can be self-consciouss to write in the public
- Maybe write on these https://www.evenrealities.com/g1
- playfulness in brainstorming, editing, writing
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies
- https://www.well-sorted.org/
- https://karl-voit.at has spilled considerable digital ink regarding organization of writing and revisiting things.
- Jeremy uses a glossary for backlinks (https://takeonrules.com/site-map/glossary/) and also organizes via tags
- http://sawv.org/en.html - Everything/Nothing "The website's content means everything to the publisher, but it could mean nothing to the rest of the world."
- "Your world is small but secure, though your gaze lingers on the horizon. You wonder what lies beyond."
- Draw on a pool of ideas paired with finding inspiration from quotations (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations)
- Tarot Cards for inspiration
- https://www.thisdaysportion.com/posts/blogging-collectively/
- https://jamesg.blog/quotes/
- https://takeonrules.com/site-map/epigraphs
- Collaborative blogging; how do we do this?
- https://library.xandra.cc/indieweb-carnival/
- Song where the lyrics are just from spam mails: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snHlENdCZyg
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse