Is an Academic Writing Retreat a Vacation?
Every year my department takes a day-long “retreat” at the end of the semester. When it’s announced, many people roll their eyes and sigh deeply. That’s because our department retreat isn’t really a retreat. It’s an 8-hour meeting with bad catering. Nobody wants to do...
How to Unlearn (And Relearn) Writing in Academia
Did academia make us forget how to write? One of the members of The Academic Women’s Writing Collective posed this question to me, and it really made me think. Our relationship to writing develops when we are young. The path is different for everyone, but many of us...
The Four Cornerstones Of Writing More: Work On One Thing at a Time
This is part 4 of our four cornerstones of writing more series. I was listening to a podcast interview with a pretty big-shot entrepreneur who was talking about how he runs a successful multi-million dollar online business. “I only work on one project at a time, and I...
The Four Cornerstones to Writing More: Break Writing Projects Into Tasks
This is part 3 of our four cornerstones of writing more series. Here’s a common writing mistake to stop making now: Putting projects on your to-do list instead of tasks. If you’ve been writing “finish article” on your to-do list, then you’re guilty of this. You’re...
The Four Cornerstones to Writing More: Create Positive Feedback Loops
How does your writing make you feel? When you think about writing, do you feel excited, happy, and encouraged? Or do you feel guilty, sad, and overwhelmed? You are never going to write and publish as much as you want to if you feel yucky about your writing. But...
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