“Yes, but How?”: Mindfulness and Writing
We often offer tips, tricks, tools, and discussions of basic decency and kindness to help writers. This helps some people, but not others. Depending on who’s reading, any given tool […]
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Practical Nudges for Attention while Writing
This week, we’re applying the framework we’ve been developing around attention to writing tips. We think it’s at least a little helpful to use unfamiliar terminology to describe very familiar […]
An Editor Goes to a Writing Retreat
One of us (Alex) is currently on a writing retreat for academics. Here’s the setup: we have a room full of early-, mid- and late-career academics, we’re all on a […]
The Zen of Writing (Part 5): When Motivation Disappears
This week we’re reflecting, as we often do, on the fickleness of motivation. While it’s often possible to adjust to natural fluctuations of energy, sometimes motivation disappears as a package—we […]
On Being a Writer and Draft -2
Clients sometimes tell us that they are “not writers”. What they usually mean is that they’re not looking for suggestion on how to take their writing to the next level—they […]
How to Write Better with LLMs (Part 2)
As mentioned before, there’s a series shaping up in our minds about Large Language Models (LLMs) and writing! We don’t pretend to have the answers for how writers should adjust […]
How to Write Better with LLMs
Despite the prevalence of hype, large language models (LLMs) are genuinely impressive. They performa as well as humans for some genres of writing. Given enough context and well-conceived prompting, they […]
The ABD Morass, Academic Coaching, and Developmental Editing
We started this business because during grad school we got an unusually close look at the struggles of hundreds of grad students at Canada’s largest university. We chose to specialize […]
Announcing ClarityGPT: Fully Automated Full-Stack Academic Editing and Coaching
We’re thrilled and proud to announce that today we are launching ClarityGPT (cGPT), a large language model that automates what we do as editors and academic coaches at all levels. […]
Writerly Akrasia
We have written about writers’ difficulties in quite a few places because our clients often face these challenges. This is an enormous topic, spanning culture, psychology, theories of education, social […]