Advice for Writing from ProfDoc Seminar

Advice for writing

- shutting the door
- sitting down
- having a pen and paper
- writing every day - "I need inspiation for my writing and I make sure at 9:00 I'm inspired."
- making connections isbeing creative...
- writing efficieny: keeping writing separate from editing
- muzzling your inner writer
- unleash your outer writer
- making a schedule
- clear goals
- keep track of work done
- reward yourself
- building habits
- try to write like a normal person
- see writing as a set of practical activities
- average acczdemic sentence is 18 words / long sentence=anything more than 40 words.
- The 'I need more time' - allot time
- read, review, analyse, describe method
- writing breads good ideas
- inspiration is rare and overated
- go ahead and write

Goals for each month
- plan and clarify goals for each month
- start a new manuscript
- revive a half written paper
-

300 words a day
Read and revise the first draft of a new paper
Re-read star text for insiration

Block
- can academic writers get writers block?
- wb means not writing...

Key lessons
- schedule and defend
- Reading and writing generate ideas
- goals
- scheduled writers don't get writers block
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Schedule, set goals, write!



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