A post drawn from our new book was published on the Thesis Whisperer blog a fortnight ago. If you want to sign up to find out more about the book, there’s a Writing Trouble Mailing List. Otherwise, you can read the post, with new pictures!, on how your thesis is the map, and not the journey.
I hear a lot of conflicting advice on how to write sentences, and I bet you do too. Should you write short sentences, because they are easier to read? Should you write longer sentences because they sound more academic? Should you write a careful mix of sentences, because that creates good flow?
This is one of those posts where I think aloud. No need to come along for the ride, but you are welcome to if you might be interested! I was doing some yoga and thinking about discomfort and writing.
When I talk to people about their writing, there’s a lot of guilt and shame about the way they write. They believe they write in the ‘wrong’ way, that other people’s writing processes are ‘good’ but theirs aren’t. You may feel this!
