Write Every Day: 27 August 02019
Aug. 27th, 2019 07:16 pmGreetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-in post for 27 August 02019.
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china_shop will be hosting September's Write Every Day posts. Since they're a bit further ahead than some of us, they might start posting before everything's all done here. Don't worry too much about it, just get there when it's time and post away.
zwei_hexen are slated for October's Write Every Day as well, barring further complications in scheduling and life.
How do y'all deal with compassion fatigue? Because having an interconnected world means there's always some other injustice that you can read, see, or hear about, regardless of where you get your newsmedia from (and the accuracy value of the newsmedia that you might be exposed to unwillingly). There are a lot of times where it feels like because I have a potentially privileged position, I should be leveraging it more to help everyone else, whether financially or socially, or protest-ly, or otherwise. Instead, I'm mostly trying to make sure I can keep my household afloat and do good work in my profession, which is probably not nothing, but certainly not the sort of thing that someone who looks like me could be doing to be more visibly helpful to people who don't look like me.
I'm sure there's something in there that says "Maslow says you must be this self-actualizzed to ride the ride." But there's also something in there that says "Your idea of comfortable enough to engage is crap and if you're comfortable, then you're doing it all wrong, because your comfort is not more important than their struggles."
(It's also true that I'll feel better about a some of this after I've eaten food. Being hungry saps the joy out of a lot of things, apparently.)
There's still the feeling that if I'm not doing as much as possible to try and rectify the issues that have brought us to that point, I'm not making the most effective use of my time. But I will also turn around and yell about what a terrible idea it is to insist upon individual solutions to structural and systematic problems.
And so the dance continues between "Am I doing enough to be a good person?" and "Self-care means you can actually do those kinds of things, y'know."
Writing-wise, I wrote a bit more on the big WIP today. As I suspected, having reached a point where I had more set pieces in mind made the words move more easily. I also finished an assignment draft, which is good. I'll check to make sure it's over wordcount and go from there.
( It's tally time! )
We have a destination!
china_shop will be hosting September's Write Every Day posts. Since they're a bit further ahead than some of us, they might start posting before everything's all done here. Don't worry too much about it, just get there when it's time and post away. zwei_hexen are slated for October's Write Every Day as well, barring further complications in scheduling and life.How do y'all deal with compassion fatigue? Because having an interconnected world means there's always some other injustice that you can read, see, or hear about, regardless of where you get your newsmedia from (and the accuracy value of the newsmedia that you might be exposed to unwillingly). There are a lot of times where it feels like because I have a potentially privileged position, I should be leveraging it more to help everyone else, whether financially or socially, or protest-ly, or otherwise. Instead, I'm mostly trying to make sure I can keep my household afloat and do good work in my profession, which is probably not nothing, but certainly not the sort of thing that someone who looks like me could be doing to be more visibly helpful to people who don't look like me.
I'm sure there's something in there that says "Maslow says you must be this self-actualizzed to ride the ride." But there's also something in there that says "Your idea of comfortable enough to engage is crap and if you're comfortable, then you're doing it all wrong, because your comfort is not more important than their struggles."
(It's also true that I'll feel better about a some of this after I've eaten food. Being hungry saps the joy out of a lot of things, apparently.)
There's still the feeling that if I'm not doing as much as possible to try and rectify the issues that have brought us to that point, I'm not making the most effective use of my time. But I will also turn around and yell about what a terrible idea it is to insist upon individual solutions to structural and systematic problems.
And so the dance continues between "Am I doing enough to be a good person?" and "Self-care means you can actually do those kinds of things, y'know."
Writing-wise, I wrote a bit more on the big WIP today. As I suspected, having reached a point where I had more set pieces in mind made the words move more easily. I also finished an assignment draft, which is good. I'll check to make sure it's over wordcount and go from there.
( It's tally time! )
