Self-Care and Community Care in Academia
We’re written quite a bit about self-care over the last year. It underlies many of our discussions of writing, motivation, craft, and editing. But good advice that doesn’t define its […]
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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 […]
SMART Goal-Setting for the New Year
A reflection on how to make New Year’s writing aspirations a reality through SMART goals, dedicated writing time, and kindness.
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Artificial Intelligence, Writing, and Editing: A “Conversation” with ChatGPT
In which we “interview” ChatGPT on the topic of AI assistant tools for writers.
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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 […]
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 […]
The Zen of Writing (Part 3): Gracefully Overwhelmed Work
Writing, in almost all its forms, is creative work. One of the most common pitfalls of creative work is overwhelm. It arises for many different reasons. Maybe we are overly […]
Self-regulation (Part 1)
Writing requires many different kinds of self-regulation. The problem is, this term hides shocking complexity. But let’s try to get a handle on a specific piece of the self-regulation puzzle: […]