If you want to write and you’re not writing, there are simple tools that can help. This group isn’t about academic writing per se, but it will support your academic writing by helping you reduce resistance and build a more consistent creative practice. It’s about getting in touch with the throughline, the inner vein of creativity that runs through everything you do. In this group, you will: Move out of “stuckness” and reduce the resistance that keeps you from writing Build a

I’ll never forget the hours I spent as an undergraduate in the fall I began my thesis, wandering the aisles of the Staples near my college, picking out a giant 3-ring binder (in which to store the research articles I printed out), packs of index cards (on which to write summaries of each article), and a little recipe card box to organize them (this was genuinely my system. Did I think I was living in 1979? It was 2002!).

A “practice” of any sort frees our minds and bodies from having to decide, over and over again.

For the last several months, I’ve been waking up early to make some more time in my day, and one of the things I’ve been doing during that precious early morning time (when it is just me and my coffee) is reading The Artist’s Way . I first read it back in 2018, I think, and I’ve come back to its 12-week creativity recovery program several times since then, always working through it by myself. Image by Andrés Molina via Unsplash If you’re an academic, you’re probably heading

TL;DR: If something feels harder than it should, tweak the task to fit you. When you tailor things to your preferences, they feel easier and more manageable.

TL;DR: Make it fun. Pair an onerous task, or something you’re dreading, or have been avoiding, with something that you truly enjoy.

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Schedule a 20-minute work session in your calendar today. During this session, your only task is to gather all of the materials you need.

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