Today marks the beginning of the third month of the year, and I must admit I’m feeling a bit untethered. After years of cultivating a very specific voice for this blog, I’m having a harder time conjuring it these days — and I’ve been allowing that to stop me from updating as much as I’d like. Aside from my last piece, which was the most viewed post in the history of this blog and which was picked up at the American Prospect, I’ve only updated one other time this year.
Freelance writing also seems to be slower at this point in 2014 than it was by this time last year.
Even so, here’s what I’ve published since 2014:
- A piece on a Melissa Harris-Perry Show faux-scandal that already seems like it happened a lifetime ago.
- Something about how white the Golden Globes are and how infuriating that was this year.
- Musings on a mall shooting in Columbia, Maryland at the mall where I most often take my daughter.
- And this piece, written in the wake of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death, which I wound up really being proud of, even though I had one of the details wrong.
- I also wrote this about mothering and teaching mothers in a college setting.
I’ve read two novels, too. Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State, not to be released until May of this year, and Gina Frangello’s A Life in Men. Here are my impressions/reviews of them on Goodreads. And did y’all know I also have a Tumblr, where I occasionally do some creative microblogging?
Here are a few pieces I’m only highlighting here because they’d be hard to find there, between my copious reblogs of Chiwetel Ejiofor photos:
http://one-offs-from-slb79.tumblr.com/post/76600977441/you-know-what-youre-ready-for-it-isnt-this-it
Because 2013 was an amazing, prolific, incomparable year, I’ve been putting a good deal of pressure on myself to keep pace or outperform. But as the first quarter of the year begins to draw to a close, I’m just going to keep steadily at work. If you’re like me — prone to anxiety and hard on yourself — I’d encourage you to join me and do the same.
Stacia L. Brown 
2 responses to “Stacia’s Minor Notes and Writing You May Have Missed.”
girl, believe it or not, yesterday i was wondering if you’d just been too busy to write. missed your updates. be gentle on yourself. the universe will follow suit. best wishes for a prolific second quarter.
I think I will join you by writing more. I’ve been putting more emphasis on reading posts of fellow writers.