On threads the other day an author shared a really helpful series of posts about iterating as an author to move yourself forward in a creative and commercial way. I’m usually not a fan of generic advice, because, it’s generic, but this was thought out and clearly came from experience. It’s worth reading the posts […]
Author: Vanessa Smith
IDPWD 2024 Feedback
IDPWD (International Day for People With a Disability) are asking for feedback on their 2024 event. You can submit the feedback here. I thought my freeform comments at the end might resonate with some others (after all, they’re similar to the last post I published, which people seemed to resonate with). Instead of annoying […]
A collection of my current thoughts about disability
These are half processed thoughts. There are more connections to be made. That will come with time. I write to think. You don’t have to publish only finished thoughts. Exploring thoughts and where they come from and how they change and grow over time is interesting and valuable. *** The more I’ve […]
- This is my life
- ...
Fix your skill deficit
A new major disability project in Australia has a role available for director of the project. This project has great funding behind it. The job is advertised as remote / work from home. It’s only when you get to the position description that it informs you that you have to go to meetings […]
- This is my life
- ...
The performative parts of work
I’ve had this topic floating around in my head for a long time. I don’t know how to approach it. I think people will hate it and dismiss it. But when someone else mentioned it on social media, I chimed in. Why not? And it was surprisingly positive. Image description: Threads post by username […]
Brains can be jerks. Also, I judge myself.
Earlier today I was really down on something. A news topic had come out and I was kicking myself. I have something in the works that would be PERFECT to promote alongside the topic. Only it’s not ready. I’ve been working on it slowly (SLOWWWWWLY) all year so far. But I presently work full […]
What are my standards?
Recently in an online community I shared that I was thinking of doing all future book publishing under a pen name. This was less about niches and genres and all those “usual” reasons and more about protecting my ability to communicate. I do very little synchronous conversing these days. It’s cognitively hard work. This means that […]
Randoms 29
I kept meaning to do these wonderful posts on all these topics individually to make them easy to find again and then I remembered I’m a sick person with no fucking spoons, so here it is, a randoms post. Disclaimering @OneGirlAndHerCows made an Instagram story post in March this year about disclaimering abilities. And […]
Performing Disabled
I came across a fantastic Instagram post about how …shock horror, disabilities can disable us! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ella 🦆🌈🌻 (@_ellawillis) The comments were also fantastic and got into the “reason vs excuse” narrative and one comment I loved by VeganYori was “I always say ‘it’s not an excuse, […]
The Done List I’m trialling in 2024
A few years ago I heard about the concept of a done list. I could use a “have done” list right now. Small steps are so easy to ignore. https://t.co/ENjToBZH5x — Vanessa Smith (@normal_ness) March 1, 2022 Tweet reads: “I could use a “have done” list right now. Small steps are so easy […]