How to Handle a Setback
This is what I did back when I hit a major, life-threatening roadblock in graduate school and it's what I've continued to do in the face of every setback I've experienced since.
#NailedIt: How to Make Your Grant Proposal Stand Out
Once you've prepared all of the required components of your grant proposal, how do you actually make it good? How do you make it stand out? I'll show you.
This is Why Your Unused Writing Isn't Wasted
You should reconsider your wasted writing time.
How to Write in Teams (Without Losing Your Sh*t)
Four ways to make team writing less Lord of the Flies.
What Writers and Athletes Have in Common
If you apply this one principle of athletic training to your writing, you'll be unstoppable.
Nine Ways to Make Grant Writing Less Stressful
Grant writing doesn't need to cause epic meltdowns. Here are 9 ways to make it less stressful.
Four Ways to Improve Your Academic Writing
One of the best ways to hook your readers is to make it easy for them. Here's how.
The Reader is Always Right
One of the easiest things to do when you're writing is to take your reader for granted. Here's how to give them some love.
What's the Point?
There's a productive way to ask What's the Point, and an unproductive way. Here's the difference.
Why You Need Time Between Writing and Revising
This is by far the piece of writing advice that people hate the most. But it's genius.
Be Ruthless
What Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, and a caper comedy from the eighties can teach you about writing.
Self Care for Superheroes (What to Do When It's All too Much)
Big-hearted people who want to change the world are sensitive. Point finale. We just are.
These Two Letters Can Speed Up Your Writing
I'll show you how two letters can maximize your writing efficiency.
Take a Dump
There's a reason I love this piece of writing advice. First, it appeals to the part of me that still has a third-grade sense of humour (um, that would be a big part). Second, and more importantly, it's highly effective. And so simple.
How to Structure Your Academic Paper in Five Minutes
Take five minutes to figure out where you're going and you won't get lost (or lose your reader).
