Are you one of the many overworked, stressed people trying to write a dissertation at the same time that you’re holding down a demanding job? Is each day more complicated than the day before? If you’ve been teaching as well as trying to find time to write, this week may be what you’ve been waiting [...]
Archive for March, 2009
For Successful Dissertation Writing, Spring Break or a Reasonable Facsimile Gives You the Distance You Need
Posted in academic, brave, coaching, courage, dissertation boot camp, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, foxes, perseverance, productivity, restart writing, self-care, teaching writing on March 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Be Your First Reader to Ask and Answer the Question “So What?”
Posted in academic, deadline, dissertation boot camp, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, focus, resources, strategies, take charge, take stock, tagged asking questions, clarity, concept, Critical approach, key terms, so what?, succinctness on March 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Have you written a section or a chapter in your dissertation that during the writing you were engaged and even in flow, but later when you read it over, you aren’t particularly in awe? In fact, you realize you’re just recounting a narrative. Or basically writing description, and it isn’t even good description. It’s short. [...]
Just about Anything Feels Better than Writing Your Dissertation
Posted in anxiety, distractions, fears, Lizard Brain, reasons for not writing, self-deception, self-sabotage, time theft, You Tube, tagged anxiety, behaviors that protect you, distractions, fear on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How was your Sunday? Productive? Or another day with only good intentions? If you don’t have much to show for the day, would you say that anxiety did you in? You know the signs of anxiety. You know when you’re getting high-jacked by a fear of one kind or another commonly associated with writing. [...]
