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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“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 […]
Working with “Ugh”
We want writers to live happy and productive lives, for several reasons. Among these, it’s just good to be happy and engaged with writing. But also, it means more writing […]
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 […]
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 […]
How to Keep Trying in the Stuck Places
Writing is hard. Learning to write is hard, and the more we learn the more sensitive we get to ways we could improve. Learning and growing is magical and wonderful, […]
Self-Care (Part 3): Kindness for Writers
In the reflection that started this year we talked about the importance of kindness in achieving your goals. Being kinder to ourselves is wonderful aspiration, but often the specifics of […]
The Zen of Writing (Part 4): Failure
Today we return to a series we’ve been developing on the Zen of writing. We started by examining the aspiration to achieve flow while writing, then looked at how we […]
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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