Do you have a writing project that you need to get done by the end of the year? Would you like to enjoy the Christmas holidays without the weight of it hanging over your head? Me too!!! There are just 11 weeks to go until Christmas! …Are you up for the challenge? Let’s get our… Continue Reading
Productivity for Scientists
Category Archives: Discipline
Video 3: How to Think About Your Writing
Worrying and feeling anxious about our writing can really slow us down or even paralyse us completely. Learn here how to deal with the negative thoughts about your writing, how to disentangle yourself from them and how to make progress despite of them. If you are feeling disheartened about your paper or thesis, if you have lost… Continue Reading
Your habit of making promises
Do you find yourself making promises to your supervisor or your co-authors to send the paper by a certain date and then “missing your own deadline”? When we promise to deliver the data analysis or the paper draft to someone, and then we forget about it and miss the deadline, we feel really bad about… Continue Reading
How to allow yourself to write imperfectly
When we sit down to write we often find ourselves deleting more than we write or hesitating to write anything until it sounds perfect. And yet a great secret to progressing with your writing is to allow yourself to write imperfectly! Earlier this week I’ve received this comment from one of the participants of my… Continue Reading
Here is how to focus on your writing
It is notoriously difficult to focus on your writing, be that a research paper or your thesis. We are usually so busy during the day that there is never enough time to get any writing done. And when we do find the time to sit down to write we feel scattered, distracted, doubt ourselves, and… Continue Reading