What I Read this Week
SUNDAY: February 6, 2022
She’s baaaack! Greetings and salutations everyone. I’m happy to be here on another Sunday evening, prepared to share some of the cool, interesting, funny, and informative stories I read over the past week.
Because I have a lot I want to say in my highlights of certain stories, I’ll just dispense of the polite chit chat, and jump right in!
Check out some of what I enjoyed reading below, but don’t hesitate to view the entire list for the week. It contains 40 stories you can view the titles for, and read at your leisure.
To locate these highlighted linked stories in the list, just scroll from top to bottom because they’re listed in the order they appear on this story.
Here are highlighted stories from the past week:
My first mention goes to a story by Petiri Ira in CULTURED and it’s on a theme that’s fitting for Black History Month. Black Basketball Players Are Human — Not Entertainment That Society Can Abuse is a story that brings attention to the racism and discriminatory practices against black athletes, after racial slurs were hurled at a young high school basketball player named Makai Brown.
Black Like Me writer Love'Nia Renee shared an interesting and creative view about black women, and hurricanes — two different types of forces to be reckoned with in life. “ALL WOMEN OF COLOR ARE HURRICANES!” prompted me to look up my birth month and year and find out which hurricane I’m synonymous with.
Abena Talks wrote a piece that really got me worked up, so much so, that I wrote a followup story to back this writer up on what she had to say. Her story was titled: Vocal is Refusing to To Pay Its Writers may sound like a story just about Vocal, but trust me, it involves so much more, and all writers need to be on alert. Read both our stories and see what I mean.
Kayla R. Minguez in Writers’ Blokke wrote a story about one of my biggest nightmares and called it: The Worst Thing That Can Happen to a Writer Happened to Me. I won’t give a spoiler on this story, I’ll just let you read it for yourself if you’re curious. But I guarantee you, if you’ve been a writer for a decent amount of time, you will have definitely felt this writer’s pain!
For anyone looking for an awesome new publication with very little gatekeeping, you’re going to love what Carrie had to say in the Evolve publication — the new place on Medium where you can be your authentic self. Read her story, titled: Evolve Is Your Publication — Writers Are Now Editors and see what you think of this concept.
Another new Medium publication that some folks might not be aware of is the Focus publication created by David Perlmutter, my favorite delivery guy (you had to be there). This super cool publication is for all things animation. If you’re a fan of animation or you’re an animation nerd who can talk the talk and walk the walk. Read about the “Call For Papers” and see what the publication has to offer.
Both Danielle Hestand and Kristina God also wrote about publications worth writing for this week, but there was another publication related story that really spoke to me. Opening a New Publication — It’s More Challenging Than You Think! reminded me of the story I shared some time ago, when I had second thoughts about being a publication editor. Writer Susie Kearley really nailed this topic, for anyone who may be on the fence about the idea.
Medium writer Jeff Herring published a very informative story in the Illumination publication. It’s all about how to get: 21 Income Streams from One Article, and there are lots of great tips I never even considered before. If you’re just itching for creative ways to earn more, and you don’t mind putting in the effort, this story will be of great value to you. Check it out and see for yourself.
Another informative story of benefit to many who read it, is the story by Crystal Mathews that’s titled: What You Should Know About Government Grants and Loans. I just love it when writers share practical information that readers can truly use, especially about making, saving, or receiving money. This story may prove to be more valuable than you think.
A young lady and student who happens to write on Medium, shared a story about her current financial crisis and I’m all too happy to spread the word and try to help her out. I appreciate young fresh minds like Jasmine Dudley and her story titled: I’m Broke Until March really moved me to want to act. So even if you don’t go buy her a Ko-fi, maybe you can at least enjoy one or two of her stories.
A few additional mentions
That pretty much wraps up the highlights, besides these few additional mentions that you should be sure to check out:
- What Would Drive Someone Who Seems To Have It All To Suicide? — by Ruby Lee Published in RESONATES
- cut yourself some slack — by Adriana Vazquez Published in Setting The Tone
- I made a prototype. Elon Musk didn’t like it. Then the internet went nuts. by Hans van de Bruggen Published in UX Collective
In case you might have noticed, the above highlights, as well as the remaining stories, are primarily from some of the newer writers that I follow.
When I looked over the stories I’ve been reading over the past weeks — another advantage of creating lists — I noticed that I tend to read and promote some of the same writers.
Do I apologize for that? Hell no. You’ll see why I say that, when you read my upcoming story this week titled: Do You Play Favorites When it Comes to Your Followers?
But with that said — or soon to be said — this week, I decided to make sure to focus on other members on the platform, besides my typical group of go-to writers like Sherry McGuinn, Michael Burg, MD (AKA Medium Michael Burg), Susan Wheelock, and a few others from the list of usual suspects.
So use this as a good opportunity to get acquainted with any new writers you’re not familiar with yet.
Here’s the link again, to the 40 stories in WHAT I READ THIS WEEK
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