[WRITING] Five #writing links: Yeats and Hyde-Lees, Duane, Phil Brown, Penelope Mortimer, schedules

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• Starting with the W.B. Yeats and his wife, the "spirit medium" Georgie Hyde-Lees, JSTOR Daily takes a look at how women become major contributors to literature through the medium of spiritualism. (That they were unsung contributors goes without saying, sadly.)


• This Diane Duane anecdote about the importance of detail, even unseen detail, speaks to me.


• This Phil Brown article at NOW Toronto talking about his disenchantment with the journalism of Buzzfeed that never let him start is career is dispiriting.


• The NYR Daily took a look at the struggles of Penelope Mortimer to make time for her life as a writer.


• This Geoffrey Pullum post at much-missed blog Lingua Franca talking about how scheduling writing time helped hold his life together rings true, believe me.