How many drafts should you write?
There are no right answers here, but the true answer to the question ‘how many drafts should I expect to write’ is ‘probably more than
There are no right answers here, but the true answer to the question ‘how many drafts should I expect to write’ is ‘probably more than
I’ve wanted to have the chance to regularly work from home for years, but it was never an option in any of the jobs I’d
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
I’m a huge fan of sketching out a plan. I find it helps me structure things and clarify what I’m doing. Here are some examples. Thanks
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
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
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,
