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So How to Fix your Academic Writing Trouble has just arrived in the publisher’s warehouse, which means it’s nearly ready to send out into the world! (Want
So How to Fix your Academic Writing Trouble has just arrived in the publisher’s warehouse, which means it’s nearly ready to send out into the world! (Want
“Deadline juice” is a term I just made up when talking to a student the other day, but it’s pretty apt. It describes the eustress response to an upcoming deadline—a healthy (yes short term appropriate stress responses are healthy!) jolt of adrenaline when your energy is up, your focus is up, your speed is up.
Writing has technical aspects, sure. You need skills, and training. And you need to be organised and disciplined about keeping up with deadlines and juggling projects. And writing has physical challenges, you have to sit and use your back and wrists and neck and eyes. But, you also bring your weird, inner, non-rational self to the desk when you write. The inner self that has views about what music you can listen to, or that you need to enact your writing rituals before typing a word. There are good reasons why you might like what you like, but a lot of it just is personal preference, and that is totally a great reason to take it seriously.
This is a story about taking time for things you love. I love food, I love how it tastes, I’m fascinated by how it works.
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.
Warning: Today I’m going to talk about going to the gym and femininity. Moreover, I’m going to talk about my personal, embodied experience. I’m a feminine, cis-gendered
I wrote Exercising Like a Girl back in early February, about starting out on a feminist and feminine self-care gym routine. I’ve been at this for
Semester is about to start again, and that means long working days, some working weekends, being busy, being tired. And that often means eating on
I’ve addressed some of these questions before, particularly in Building your thesis on the corpses of your enemies and in my post on Effective Signposting. But I
