Joy AJ Howard
@drjoyajhoward.bsky.social
Writing Coach. Supporting clients—especially women, BIPOC, queer identifying & disabled—to create productive careers & satisfying, joyful lives. Also Early American scholar, especially 18th C. joyajhoward.com
Finding daily rhythms of writing and research that bring you peace in a world that is far from peaceful is not easy.
And yet, even though they are tricky, our brains and bodies deeply need daily rhythms that take into account the many things that kick in our fight-or-flight responses.
And yet, even though they are tricky, our brains and bodies deeply need daily rhythms that take into account the many things that kick in our fight-or-flight responses.
August 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Finding daily rhythms of writing and research that bring you peace in a world that is far from peaceful is not easy.
And yet, even though they are tricky, our brains and bodies deeply need daily rhythms that take into account the many things that kick in our fight-or-flight responses.
And yet, even though they are tricky, our brains and bodies deeply need daily rhythms that take into account the many things that kick in our fight-or-flight responses.
I am accepting new coaching & editing clients.
There is no one-size-fits-all fix when it comes to writing strategies, but finding some peace is possible.
To schedule a free consult about coaching with me, go to: joyajhowardcoaching.as.me
There is no one-size-fits-all fix when it comes to writing strategies, but finding some peace is possible.
To schedule a free consult about coaching with me, go to: joyajhowardcoaching.as.me
July 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I am accepting new coaching & editing clients.
There is no one-size-fits-all fix when it comes to writing strategies, but finding some peace is possible.
To schedule a free consult about coaching with me, go to: joyajhowardcoaching.as.me
There is no one-size-fits-all fix when it comes to writing strategies, but finding some peace is possible.
To schedule a free consult about coaching with me, go to: joyajhowardcoaching.as.me
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🚨 Don’t let the USPS fall into privatizers’ hands. The Board of Governors is picking the next Postmaster General — tell them: NO privatizers!📬 Take 30 seconds to act: actionnetwork.org/letters/post...
URGENT ACTION - send a message on the USPS
The USPS Board of Governors announced its intention to appoint David Steiner, reportedly the White House’s preferred candidate, as the next Postmaster General. The appointment of a FedEx board member ...
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June 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
🚨 Don’t let the USPS fall into privatizers’ hands. The Board of Governors is picking the next Postmaster General — tell them: NO privatizers!📬 Take 30 seconds to act: actionnetwork.org/letters/post...
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
Creativity is rooted in risks writes Zorana. When I read this, it felt very true. I am remembering moments in my own intellectual life where I have made leaps forward. It felt risky because it was.
June 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Creativity is rooted in risks writes Zorana. When I read this, it felt very true. I am remembering moments in my own intellectual life where I have made leaps forward. It felt risky because it was.
I am working my way through The Creativity Choice this week! My friend Zorana’s research shows that creativity is not a trait that we are born with.
June 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I am working my way through The Creativity Choice this week! My friend Zorana’s research shows that creativity is not a trait that we are born with.
I am excited to share with you some writing advice from my longtime friend Zorana Ivcevic Pringle. Zorana studies what happens at the intersections of productivity and creativity. How do some people manage to harness creativity into something really tangible for their ideas?
June 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I am excited to share with you some writing advice from my longtime friend Zorana Ivcevic Pringle. Zorana studies what happens at the intersections of productivity and creativity. How do some people manage to harness creativity into something really tangible for their ideas?
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Big news! Issues of Early American Studies (@easmisc.bsky.social) are now publishing #OpenAccess on ProjectMuse. Our latest winter 2025 issue can be freely viewed here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54263.
Project MUSE - Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal-Volume 23, Issue 1, Winter 2025
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March 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Big news! Issues of Early American Studies (@easmisc.bsky.social) are now publishing #OpenAccess on ProjectMuse. Our latest winter 2025 issue can be freely viewed here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54263.
Give yourself space. Allow yourself to change.
Maggie’s Smith writes: “It’s fine to let a piece rest, and to give yourself the room and space to change.”
Maggie’s Smith writes: “It’s fine to let a piece rest, and to give yourself the room and space to change.”
May 31, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Give yourself space. Allow yourself to change.
Maggie’s Smith writes: “It’s fine to let a piece rest, and to give yourself the room and space to change.”
Maggie’s Smith writes: “It’s fine to let a piece rest, and to give yourself the room and space to change.”
Here’s some more practical writing advice from Maggie Smith today: Let Go.
“Any piece of writing is a time capsule,” Maggie Smith says. “It reflects the choices—and the abilities, and the limitations—of the writer we are at the time.”
“Any piece of writing is a time capsule,” Maggie Smith says. “It reflects the choices—and the abilities, and the limitations—of the writer we are at the time.”
May 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Here’s some more practical writing advice from Maggie Smith today: Let Go.
“Any piece of writing is a time capsule,” Maggie Smith says. “It reflects the choices—and the abilities, and the limitations—of the writer we are at the time.”
“Any piece of writing is a time capsule,” Maggie Smith says. “It reflects the choices—and the abilities, and the limitations—of the writer we are at the time.”
Sometimes we need writerly encouragement and sometimes we need concrete, practical advice. I’m reading Maggie Smith’s new book and it’s both.
I am excited to share what I’ve been learning with you.
“I want each sentence to sing,” writes Smith in a highly practical chapter of Dear Writer.
I am excited to share what I’ve been learning with you.
“I want each sentence to sing,” writes Smith in a highly practical chapter of Dear Writer.
May 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Sometimes we need writerly encouragement and sometimes we need concrete, practical advice. I’m reading Maggie Smith’s new book and it’s both.
I am excited to share what I’ve been learning with you.
“I want each sentence to sing,” writes Smith in a highly practical chapter of Dear Writer.
I am excited to share what I’ve been learning with you.
“I want each sentence to sing,” writes Smith in a highly practical chapter of Dear Writer.
So many of us were taught—explicitly or implicitly— to ignore our bodies in order to be productive.
We were the kids that stayed up late studying, ignoring our bodies’ need for food or rest. We were the ones who skipped meals to save money while earning . . .
We were the kids that stayed up late studying, ignoring our bodies’ need for food or rest. We were the ones who skipped meals to save money while earning . . .
May 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
So many of us were taught—explicitly or implicitly— to ignore our bodies in order to be productive.
We were the kids that stayed up late studying, ignoring our bodies’ need for food or rest. We were the ones who skipped meals to save money while earning . . .
We were the kids that stayed up late studying, ignoring our bodies’ need for food or rest. We were the ones who skipped meals to save money while earning . . .
I have room immediately for editing. Do you have projects you want to get out the door? I can accept articles as well as book projects.
April 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I have room immediately for editing. Do you have projects you want to get out the door? I can accept articles as well as book projects.
If you are like most people I know, you are struggling to write while so much chaos is swirling.
It is possible to write & research in the midst of great stress.
It is possible to write & research in the midst of great stress.
April 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
If you are like most people I know, you are struggling to write while so much chaos is swirling.
It is possible to write & research in the midst of great stress.
It is possible to write & research in the midst of great stress.
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Major research funding cuts in the US are also affecting popular science YouTube channels, which relied on the small segment of funding budgets that were set aside for outreach. (Well, "small" for the funders, but a big part of income for YouTube channels) #scicomm www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQjF...
Your Favorite YouTube Channels Might Not Survive This
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February 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Major research funding cuts in the US are also affecting popular science YouTube channels, which relied on the small segment of funding budgets that were set aside for outreach. (Well, "small" for the funders, but a big part of income for YouTube channels) #scicomm www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQjF...
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We are at the point of late stage capitalism where we have to convince people that community is foundational to a thriving society and that community is important.
We are at the point of late stage capitalism where we have to convince people that community is foundational to a thriving society and that community is important.
February 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Repost @thenapministry from Threads
We are at the point of late stage capitalism where we have to convince people that community is foundational to a thriving society and that community is important.
We are at the point of late stage capitalism where we have to convince people that community is foundational to a thriving society and that community is important.
Octavia Butler was not only a brilliant writer, she was a brilliant intellectual about writing. I think those of us in literary studies are now just starting to really comprehend the depth of her legacy as a black woman writing science fiction at the end of the 20th century in America.
February 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Octavia Butler was not only a brilliant writer, she was a brilliant intellectual about writing. I think those of us in literary studies are now just starting to really comprehend the depth of her legacy as a black woman writing science fiction at the end of the 20th century in America.
You’re As Good As Anybody Else
You’ve Got A Place Here, Too
#writing #writingcoaching #ToniMorrison #writingprocess #blackhistory #resist #hopingishardwork
You’ve Got A Place Here, Too
#writing #writingcoaching #ToniMorrison #writingprocess #blackhistory #resist #hopingishardwork
February 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
You’re As Good As Anybody Else
You’ve Got A Place Here, Too
#writing #writingcoaching #ToniMorrison #writingprocess #blackhistory #resist #hopingishardwork
You’ve Got A Place Here, Too
#writing #writingcoaching #ToniMorrison #writingprocess #blackhistory #resist #hopingishardwork
Toni Morrison gave an interview over thirty years ago for the Paris Review that resulted in what can only be described now as a master class in writing. I’ve come back to this interview many times in my life for various reasons & every time I read it I learn something new.
February 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Toni Morrison gave an interview over thirty years ago for the Paris Review that resulted in what can only be described now as a master class in writing. I’ve come back to this interview many times in my life for various reasons & every time I read it I learn something new.
Love is my battlecry.
I am grateful for the teachings of bell hooks.
“A culture of domination is anti-love. It requires violence to sustain itself. To choose love is to go against the prevailing values of culture.” —bell hooks
I am grateful for the teachings of bell hooks.
“A culture of domination is anti-love. It requires violence to sustain itself. To choose love is to go against the prevailing values of culture.” —bell hooks
February 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Love is my battlecry.
I am grateful for the teachings of bell hooks.
“A culture of domination is anti-love. It requires violence to sustain itself. To choose love is to go against the prevailing values of culture.” —bell hooks
I am grateful for the teachings of bell hooks.
“A culture of domination is anti-love. It requires violence to sustain itself. To choose love is to go against the prevailing values of culture.” —bell hooks
February is Black History Month and I absolutely refuse to ignore this month’s importance even as the GOP government’s attacks on DEI and diversity keep coming. These attacks are vile and they misrepresent what the history of and the work of DEI is.
February 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
February is Black History Month and I absolutely refuse to ignore this month’s importance even as the GOP government’s attacks on DEI and diversity keep coming. These attacks are vile and they misrepresent what the history of and the work of DEI is.
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But Jesus's deeper point in the Parable of the Good Samaritan can only be understood from the point of view of the beaten man: our ultimate salvation depends, as it did for that man, upon those whom we often consider to be the "stranger."
January 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
But Jesus's deeper point in the Parable of the Good Samaritan can only be understood from the point of view of the beaten man: our ultimate salvation depends, as it did for that man, upon those whom we often consider to be the "stranger."
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Jesus said, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?”... Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother" (Mt 12:46-50). For Jesus, ties to the Father were more important than family ties. And responsibilities to family took second place to demands of discipleship
January 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Jesus said, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?”... Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother" (Mt 12:46-50). For Jesus, ties to the Father were more important than family ties. And responsibilities to family took second place to demands of discipleship
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Actually, no. This misses the point of Jesus's Parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10: 25-37). After Jesus tells a lawyer that you should "love your neighbor as yourself," the lawyer asks him, "And who is my neighbor?"
January 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Actually, no. This misses the point of Jesus's Parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10: 25-37). After Jesus tells a lawyer that you should "love your neighbor as yourself," the lawyer asks him, "And who is my neighbor?"
To all my friends & family celebrating tonight:
Happy Lunar New Year!
Happy Lunar New Year!
January 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
To all my friends & family celebrating tonight:
Happy Lunar New Year!
Happy Lunar New Year!