My 10-4 writing record and thinking about writing as work
Amanda Ake Amanda Ake

My 10-4 writing record and thinking about writing as work

In late April, I let myself go a little crazy in the stationery section of McNally Jackson (Seaport). In addition to a notebook and a few stickers, I bought a Penco monthly memo pad with lines numbered 1-31. As soon as I saw it, I was filled with a desire to track what I wrote or what piece of writing I worked on each day in a month.

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In which I worry I don’t know how to revise
Amanda Ake Amanda Ake

In which I worry I don’t know how to revise

At least half-finished paintings and crochet projects exist in my physical reality to remind me of their continued existence. It feels easier to accidentally leave writing to rot in whatever way data points decompose, which is to say never and sometimes all at once.

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