Occasionally I am reminded—or I remember—that I should promote my own work and not just that of other people. (Although if you are in the Iowa City area, you should get your broken stuff fixed, free, on April 21! And if you’re looking for something good to read on the internet, I highly recommend shelling out a tiny amount of money every month to Flaming Hydra.)
I fail to promote my own work due not to modesty (my ideas are great!) but largely because I have too many ideas (and thus as I sit down to write to you right now I’m also thinking about whether a bias binding or a bias facing is the way I want to go on a dress I’m making, some multi-media intern projects I heard about yesterday, storytelling, whether HR trainings can be gamified, whether gamification is a word that should exist, if I should try to put together a writing and research class for people who want to do jobs like mine, as was suggested to me recently, and, well, you get the idea). My brain is what it is. Sometimes it’s great; sometimes it’s out of tune.
Without wasting any more of your time, you can now find more Laura
writing for Truthout (my first piece, about banned books and ebooks, came out last month; my next, a portrait of the high school student as a young activist, will follow eventually)
teaching a class on research for writers (in person and on the internet!) via Porchlight in May
This newsletter has never had any design or import, but it did occur to me in titling this entry that “HOWTO” has been a theme (how to run a meeting! how to go to NYC!). If I were better at promoting myself, I’d keep that up. As it is, well, stay tuned. Or not.