No Roundup: Something Saved
I am skipping the Roundup this week (though please still add great posts you read in the comment section, and I’ll pull them in the next time the Roundup goes up) but instead unloading a post from one of my two saved link folders. I keep two. The first is for the Roundup. Whenever I read something that sticks with me after I leave the post, I drop it in that folder. On Thursday night or Friday morning, I pull out three or four for the post. I clear the folder after I write the post and start anew.
The other folder is an ongoing folder. Whenever I start reading something and think, “Oh… I really want to spend time with this” or “I am going to want to write about this,” I drop it in a folder. Sometimes I go back and read the whole piece. Sometimes it doesn’t grab me as much on the second try. Other times it ends up in a post, and then I remove the piece from the folder. I only clean out that folder once every year or so. It’s where I go when I know I want to write but I have nothing to write about. There is always something interesting in that folder.
That’s also how you keep a blog going for 13 years. Keep a folder of anything interesting you find.
So I am unloading an article that I love but have zero clue what to even say about it. It’s about a modern day, professional wizard in Brooklyn who tries to answer this essential question: “What would a wizard do in the modern era?”
“Wizards are people helpers,” he said. “They are who the hero encounters on their journey, and they’re able to give the hero a bit of advice, maybe a magical artifact, some sort of assistance that helps the hero get over their obstacle and on their journey.”
That is awesome.
So what is something you’ve saved recently to read later?
2 comments
I love when you give us a peak into how your brain and writing works! I have always wondered how you can have all these articles you unpack in your posts at the ready. I find your method really interested and so smart! Because me??
Well, I use the send feature on articles on my phone and text a copy to myself. I was emailing but found that they would get lost in the mix (because I don’t organize or delete emails and rely heavily on gmail’s search feature…)
What I have saved lately is every article featuring Schitt’s Creek (either the show or the actors) because I’m obsessed and they just wrapped filming the final season just as the show majorly blew up. So I am reading every last thing I can.
These days, I mostly save memes that I want to send to people or videos (because I am always waiting until later to watch a video). Articles are something I tend to read right away.