Over the years, my schedule and responsibilities have led me to experiment with various writing schedules and productivity strategies. I've always wondered what variables really matter …
How to Balance Multiple Writing Projects: Serial vs. Parallel Writing
Most academic writing projects take months, if not years. Put your eggs all in one basket (like the book), or work only on projects from start to completion and you might not have much to show for …
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3 Ways to Get Yourself Unstuck
Every academic writer gets stuck at some point in her life. Before continuing to spin your wheels, first identify: have you lost your writing path, or are you stalled? (Not sure? Read Joli Jensen's …
Audit Your Writing Session Steps & Decisions
Your choice of what to wear, what and when to eat, and whether to buy the grapes or cherries seem completely unrelated to writing your academic book. And yet they are related. …
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Review & Revise Your Container Routine with These Questions
If you're following along with my "Finding the Time To Write Your Academic Book Series," you've now had a few weeks to develop and practice implementing your Container Routine. (Don't know what a …
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3 Ways to Engineer Your Book Writing Environment
If you're like many of the junior scholars I coach, you desperately want to find time to write your academic book. But during the semester, it doesn't feel possible. You might have developed your …
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How to Use Google Forms to Track Your Writing Sessions
In previous posts, I've shown you how I use Excel to track my own writing sessions, and discussed why opening and closing routines are crucial to sustained writing. In this post, I put all three …
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Finding the Time to Write Your Academic Book with a Young Child [A Guest Post]
Many first-time academic book authors, but especially parents of young children, struggle with finding time to write their book. I frequently receive questions like these: I’m starting my second …
Finding Time to Write Your Academic Book, Part 5: Implementing Your Plan Each Week
In this series, I show you how to find time to write your first book during the semester, even as a parent on a heavy teaching load (3-3 or 4-4). In previous posts, I've tackled some of the pitfalls …
Finding Time to Write Your Academic Book #3: Introducing the Container Routine
I work with junior humanities and qualitative social science faculty on tackling their book revisions. Writing an academic book, though, is not just a matter of mastering its content, form, …
How To Find Time to Write Your Academic Book, Part 2: Plan for the Doer
This post is part 2 of my 10-part series, in which I tackle one of the trickiest problems for first-time academic book authors: finding the time to write your book when the semester gets hectic. Next …
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Finding Time to Write Your First Academic Book, Part 1: Series Introduction
Over the past year, I've committed myself to helping junior scholars in humanities and social sciences tackle their first book project. Many book-specific tasks trip these scholars up, especially …
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