As someone who had a pretty efficient work-life balance system, before COVID made everything happen on a computer in my … More
Tag: habits
Academic ‘disaster scripts’ in a time of disasters
Inger just wrote a really good post over on the Thesis Whisperer blog, about how, right now, we are in … More
Getting back into writing after a break
Often candidates and researchers come to talk to me when they are trying to get back into academic writing after … More
Yet another to-do list blog
Usually I keep my to-do lists as handwritten scrawls, as marginalia, as a schedule in my calendar, or I remember … More
But what if I don’t wanna?
One of the biggest challenges for PhD candidates, and any writer, is motivation. There is little external motivation beyond ‘getting … More
Red Cabbage OR [Insert quote here]
One of the joys of my job is being allowed to ask academics, ‘How do you write?’ The answer, often … More
Writing ‘tics’
You may have noticed by now that I am big on drafting. This weekend I was at Thesis Boot Camp … More
