Virtual Shut Up and Write: now with added Video
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
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
Often, we feel we should wait to feel ‘inspired’ to start writing. We want to wait until we feel we are filled up with ideas and certainty and energy to write. And yet, as Boice found in his research, turning up regularly and ‘just writing’, whether or not you felt inspired or had time or were ready, could make someone nine times more productive.
Your progress might feel slow, but that might just be the normal speed of trying to learn new things, or experimenting (and often failing) to find new
I’ve mentioned ‘done lists‘ before, but as it’s the beginning of the year, I thought it was time to remind you about them. In January,
It’s the beginning of the year, and some of you are heading back to work already. I certainly am. Not only is it a new
Longtime readers of the blog will know Research Degree Insiders is a big fan of time off — there’s a whole category of posts tagged
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
As someone who had a pretty efficient work-life balance system, before COVID made everything happen on a computer in my home… I have been struggling
Sometimes I realise that an important idea I’ve been talking about, almost since the beginning of the blog, has never had a post of it’s
All of this works because we start doing the work. By not delaying the real work through endless reading and procrastination, we start working towards our end goal, in ways that actually contribute to our goals. That is, we start making words on the page that can be added to and refined until you have enough good enough words to submit a passable PhD thesis.
