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Can’t concentrate?  Having trouble getting into flow with your writing?  Get a cat! Advice to writers can come from the most interesting places.  An unexpected, but most entertaining source of advice is A Far Cry from Kensington, a novel by British writer Muriel Spark.  A Far Cry takes place in 1954 London.  Mrs. Hawkins, the narrator, has a job in publishing.  And yes, [...]

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An ABD’s dilemmas with her writing underscore for me the problems dissertation writers have when they’re isolated from campus and from an advisor during the dissertation process. As a dissertation coach, I don’t fix people’s writing, but I listen, and if a client sends me some text, I see what the writing looks like.  This [...]

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Several ABD’s have told me over the last few days about issues with parents, spouses, boyfriends or girlfriends, and even friends. The boyfriend of one of my clients has made it clear that he thinks it’s taking far too long for her to finish her dissertation.  And the process drags on because she hesitates to [...]

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Family and friends tend to give advice to ABD’s.  It’s usually well-meaning.  Sometimes it comes from personal experience and sometimes not.  Rarely does it help. What I often hear from my dissertation clients is how difficult it is for them to deal with family members’ over-investment in the dissertation process.  Most ABD’s say that their [...]

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