Rowan Deer, PhD
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Freelance Copyeditor | Writer | Mindbody Medicine Coach 📍Berlin she/her
it maybe seems strange to write about aphantasia via a book review, but visual imagination (or lack thereof) deeply shapes the reading experience. and this vastly different experience of reading books provides a glimpse of the vastly different ways we read the world
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Orion Magazine
3 months ago
In a lifetime of reading, it took decades for Jemma Rowan Deer to realize something about herself: she has aphantasia, or the total lack of the ability to produce mental imagery. She describes the condition in the bounds of a container she knows well: the literary review.
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Reading in the Dark
"The words move like transparent fish through the lightless world of the deepest sea"
https://orionmagazine.org/article/reading-in-the-dark/
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today in weird shit from google alerts: a “creative food studio” in Madrid is hosting an €80 “supper club” based on my book
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“INCLUDES AN IN-GALLERY EXPERIENCE WITH SIX EDIBLE CREATIONS INSPIRED BY THE EXHIBITION’S THEME +PAIRING OF HONEST WINES AND WELCOME COCKTAIL”
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about 1 year ago
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I found it surprisingly useful with a batch of scientific papers on a particular topic, and then out of curiosity fed it all my published papers (i.e. in lit crit / environmental humanities) and the results were completely inane. So better (if not infallible) for science?
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about 1 year ago
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Happy solstice folx! Here’s some good news to celebrate 💚
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Seven quiet breakthroughs for climate and nature in 2024 you might have missed
Global temperatures rose and extreme weather ramped up, but there were also some significant breakthroughs for the climate this year.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241216-seven-quiet-breakthroughs-for-climate-and-nature-in-2024-you-might-have-missed?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=67ac71b01c-nature-briefing-anthropocene-20241220&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-67ac71b01c-50866084&mc_cid=67ac71b01c&mc_eid=2addaea0cd
about 1 year ago
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If you'd like to book me to teach a writing workshop at your institution, get in touch to discuss options - it could be live or online, 2 hours or 2 days, and can be tailored to participants' interests and needs :)
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about 2 years ago
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Some feedback from participants:
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about 2 years ago
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This week I had the pleasure to teach another 2-day writing workshop at the @CarsonCenter , this time focused on honing and editing a work-in-progress. Thank you to the participants who were thoughtful and engaged throughout :)
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...
about 2 years ago
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Details of my next writing workshop at the Rachel Carson Center are online:
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...
I can't wait to see what everyone achieves in the 2 days📝🚀 Get in touch to book something similar for your institution or research centre :)
over 2 years ago
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Hello Bluesky! Let me use this first post to introduce myself: I’m Rowan, and I’m a freelance #copyeditor and #writing coach, specialising in academic and nonfiction writing. Get in touch if you’d like to find out more about how I can help your writing achieve its full potential 📝🚀
over 2 years ago
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