Generative Writing and #shutupandwrite: Second Edition
Of all the posts I wrote for this blog in the early days, ‘Generative Writing and #shutupandwrite‘ has dated the most. In those days I
Of all the posts I wrote for this blog in the early days, ‘Generative Writing and #shutupandwrite‘ has dated the most. In those days I
Hello everyone! It’s been quiet here for a bit, not because my drafts folder isn’t full of future posts but because I’ve been on research
In 2013, I wrote one of my most significant early posts on this blog, The Perfect Sentence Vortex and How to Escape It. That post
Usually I keep my to-do lists as handwritten scrawls, as marginalia, as a schedule in my calendar, or I remember it. Once I’m in a
Often candidates and researchers come to talk to me when they are trying to get back into academic writing after a long break. That break
A typical aspect of early drafts of writing by doctoral candidates is the way they are focused on defining their research question. This is important,
One of the biggest challenges for PhD candidates, and any writer, is motivation. There is little external motivation beyond ‘getting this book-sized thing done’, and
Yes, this is another metaphor about writing. Let’s see if it goes somewhere useful.
So, I’m hesitant about detailed plans because I notice that people often get stuck in them. They make a plan then have to do this
I’m not actually much of a fan of to do lists. They aren’t actually much use, in my view, at getting things done. Like planning
