Academia and Self-Care (Part 2): Acceptance and Commitment

We consider some high-level thoughts about self-care, boundaries, and academia.

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Academia and Self-Care: Uneasy Partners

Here we begin to explore the difficulty of self-care for academics because of the complexity of academic deadlines, and the role of academic coaching.

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Self-Regulation: Writing on the Hardest Days

We have written a fair amount about self-regulation in relation to writing. We have discussed strategies for starting, ways to persevere, ways to navigate around procrastination, and the joy of […]

Draft 0 and the Joy of Just Starting to Write

We’ve already written a fair deal about what it’s like to get stuck with writing, some strategies for overcoming stuckness, and what unstuck writing tends to feel like. Today, let’s […]

Writers on the Struggle to Write Well

Today we will step back and look at a selection of relevant quotes by working writers. We should treasure their candid takes about the process of writing. Is Writer’s Block […]

Writer’s Block (Part 3): Overwhelm

We’ve explored writer’s block in previous posts (Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here). Put simply, writer’s block is a constellation of feelings and experiences that is driven […]

Self-regulation (Part 2): Meeting Inspiration Half-way

In the first part of this series, we started considering how to treat writing as craft and not as a mysterious and inspired gift. Because the sad truth is that […]

Writer’s Block

Hello world! In this blog series we will explore the many ways in which writers search for, and typically fail to find, that elusive concept of clarity. Along the way, […]