In 2019-20 I was writing 3 books with other people (publication ranged from Nov 2019 to March 2021, but this does not reflect the writing or editing period of the books.) The books took between 9 months and 3 years to finish, and all of them overlapped in a great crash.
Are you over video calls? Are email and quick messages too distanced? Is it currently difficult or impossible for you to catch up with colleagues
Some workplaces and research cultures explicitly or implicitly run so that every conversation is actually a battle for airtime, and it’s common to try to sabotage other people’s chances. We should be working towards the exact opposite: energising, authentic, worthwhile, academic conversations. That’s what we love about getting together with our nerd pals.
What you need to do yourself to prepare a publication? This is one of the big shifts for people moving from being a student, where
Now that we have transitioned to working from home, and worked out some of the technical issues about making things we used to do face-to-face
But I’m just submitting my third book manuscript in a year (not to mention a book chapter, two commissioned poems, a book review, some peer reviews, and a short non-fiction piece that I also submitted in the last 12 months). So it’s not that I’m excluded from super-productivity, it’s that I’m benefiting from it and succeeding at it and I’m concerned by it.
So Inger, Shaun and I have just finished another book. This one is called Level Up your Essays for undergraduate writers, and is off to NewSouth publishers.
This post was co-authored by a really generous bunch of people, some of whom we met for the first time to write it. The post
A couple of people in my wider circle have recently asked me about how to get started on a PhD proposal. This advice is mostly
You know how it is. You’ve been working on an article forever, but it just isn’t working. You need to get it submitted, you need
