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Katie Davis, Tapped Into You, 2021
Katie won a Award!
WWW’s Weekly Winners (June 28 - July 4, 2020)
These are the best things I read, watched, and listened to over the past week. Feel free to chat with me about my picks!
Book: Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption by Katie Davis (Memoir of a young American woman who went to Uganda to spend one year doing mission work after high school, and instead ended up living there permanently, starting a nonprofit, and becoming a mother to 14 orphaned girls by the time she was 23.)
Movie or TV Show: Fruits Basket (Scheming Shigure is so fun to watch.)
Song: “A Thousand More” by Thrive Worship (It’s really pretty, and it reminds me to pay attention to what’s important and eternal, not just my small daily concerns.)
Everyone leaves feedback and reviews for one another, leading to a sprawling, communal learning environment.
GREAT ARTICLE!!!
Love this bit, “A fan-fiction site is a uniquely energetic learning environment. Unlike in the classroom, where a writing prompt is as likely to be met with groans as with enthusiasm, writers on fan-fiction websites are thrilled to be there, excited to write, and passionate about the material—because it’s based on a book, TV show, movie, video game, or something else they already love.” says Katie Davis, a professor at the University of Washington’s Information School and a co-founder of its Digital Youth Lab.
Davis, along with her University of Washington colleague Cecilia Aragon, recently spent nine months studying a couple of fan-fiction websites, focusing mostly on young authors writing on fanfiction.net. (Older, more experienced fan-fiction authors tend to prefer the website Archive of Our Own.) They published their observations in a new book called Writers in the Secret Garden, and described their theory that people on these websites are actually teaching one another to write through a kind of sprawling, communal learning that Aragon and Davis call “distributed mentorship.”
Procrastination plagues most writers at one time or another. Educator Katie Davis gives 9 helpful tips for getting out of the procrastination cycle.
Katie Davis:
[...] I’m not sure if it counts or not, but does it really matter what we call it if the writing still doesn’t get done? Regardless of the moniker, it can happen any time, to anyone. Because of that, I’m excited to share some tips on getting your BIC (Butt In Chair).
First you might want to figure out why you’re procrastinating.
Your idea needs to marinate a little.
You’re a perfectionist.
The manuscript you’re working on is no fun
It’s boring.
It’s difficult.
You’re afraid of not succeeding.
Or afraid of succeeding.
You lack motivation because there isn’t any goal.
You have no energy.
Anything sound familiar? Diagnosis: you’re human. Give yourself a break, figure out why you’re procrastinating, and then reframe your habits. Use these tips if you really want to get that work done. [...]
It’s not our productiveness “for” God that counts, it is our worship, our time at His feet. It isn’t our public life, the accolades and the “well-done”s and the applause of the world that matters, it is our silent, continuous reach for Him in the places where no one is watching. It isn’t our “world changing” that makes any difference, it is the way we let Him change and shape our hearts to more reflect His.
Katie Davis
Ideas are limitless, and they can’t be copyrighted. They hang in the air all around us, just waiting for us to pluck them like ripe fruit from a bountiful tree.
Katie Davis (from How to Write a Children’s Book)