October Reminds Me… It’s October. Hard to believe, but it is. I have to keep checking my calendar to confirm; time-wise, it still feels like it should be April. Working from home, it has been easy to get lost in Read more
Okay, Not Just for Writers… There’s a tendency for people to assess their self-worth based on productivity. And while I think that everyone struggles with the coupling of these two concepts (self-worth and productivity) to some extent, writers (and other Read more
[I’m stealing the idea of a joy report from my friend Dakota (who stole it from someone else)–check out his joy report here!] Focus on the Positive We all have different trials and tribulations in our lives, many of which Read more
Your Computer Is Your Friend All too often, I hear writers complain that their hard drives are a mess, that important files keep disappearing into the digital miasma of those hard drives. Hearing them talk, I imagine the Starship Enterprise Read more
Critical Thinking Skills In school, we’re taught from an early age that there are right answers and wrong answers. Back in my day, it was the red pen on homework and test papers that signified what was wrong. The more Read more
The First Rule of Writing Is… The first rule of writing is… I know some of you want to finish that sentence with “…you do not talk about writing.” But while that may be the first rule of Fight Club, Read more
The Fallacy of Productivity You may have seen the memes on social media, things like Shakespeare having written King Lear while quarantined during the plague. Or heard of people using this time of sheltering-in-place to learn or perfect a new Read more
The Academic Writing Virtual Retreat Video Series In collaboration with Nicole Shea, Ph.D. and Adeline Boettcher, Ph.D., I am very excited to be co-leading the Academic Writing Virtual Retreat Video Series–coming soon! These free “bite-sized” videos will be aimed at Read more
*With acknowledgement to Robert Fulghum of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Lessons from Writing A year ago, in January 2019, I launched my website and “officially” hung out my shingle as a full-time editor, proofreader, Read more
Keeping New Year’s Resolutions According to history.com, it was the ancient Babylonians, 4,000 years ago, who first made New Year’s resolutions and celebrated the new year as such. Nowadays, nearly half of all Americans say they make resolutions. Of the Read more