
Working out why something works
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
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
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.
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.
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
One of my favourite tools in my home office is my whiteboard. Today, I want to talk about how I use a whiteboard to keep track of writing projects.
Western logical structures, which developed from the Ancient Greeks and were then developed by the Church Fathers and Enlightenment philosophers, tend to be what we
If someone who has made it to university and cares about their studies is making a persistent error that most students can avoid, it suggests a systemic glitch.
There is a stage at the end of a major project, like sending off a book or a thesis, where you are almost, nearly, very