Narrative Outlines are a better way to plan chapters
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
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
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,
Yes, this is another metaphor about writing. Let’s see if it goes somewhere useful.
So reverse outlines are super simple, and super powerful. Basically, instead of writing a detailed, paragraph-level plan before you start writing, you do the writing
I’ve been thinking a lot about productivity and efficiency recently. Reading yet more articles about startups working a 4 day week/ the 4 hour work
I am a HUGE fan of writing to music. I wrote my PhD to 8 hours of Tori Amos on loop, and ‘Sleeps with Butterflies’
This is the first in a series of 3 posts: cute, quick metaphors (from the Greek, to carry across one kind of meaning into another
In August of last year, I gave a paper to the University of Melbourne’s Office of Research Ethics and Integrity research seminars, Tuesdays with OREI, on ‘Hyper-Anxiety about
