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Store Your Dissertation in the Cloud
Do you work on multiple computers? How are you dealing with the need to make optimum use of your time and to make headway on your dissertation no matter at which one of those multiple computers you...
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Change failure to success
What do you do when you have a plan for a writing project in place, but it goes terribly wrong? What is your response? When you slip up, do those powerful feelings that you’re not allowed to make a...
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Careers outside of academia: The Versatile PhD
Are you interested in careers that might not be in academia? Have you found it hard to find people in the academic environment who know about other careers? Just a few days ago I learned from a...
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Mom’s in Maine – Marking Boundaries for Space to Write
Are your children home on vacation from school? And you’re trying to keep an eye on your children, as well as make headway on your writing project? How’s that working for you? During the school year,...
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Trying to Write? Put a Door between You and Your Kids
In a recent blog, I sang the praises of writing whenever you are taking a plane somewhere. The quiet, distraction-free atmosphere makes flying perfect for writing, or so it seems to me. I heard from...
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The cost of keeping score in a relationship
A Saturday alone is a gift. My husband is gone for the weekend, and I am writing. As a reward to writing first, I promised myself a bit of email-inbox decluttering. To see if I should read it or delete...
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How to Meet Your Writing Goals
Not too long ago, when my adult son mentioned how busy his work and life have become, my husband was reminded of an annual planning session he had attended at which a facilitator presented a workshop...
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Kicking the can down the road works for me
Kicking the can down the road has been given a bad rap. Political usage of the game’s title has come to mean a shirking of responsibility or procrastinating or hoping someone else will take care of a...
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To Stop Procrastinating and Start Writing, Think like Safeway and Plan Your...
Habits have a powerful hold on us. Many times every day we are drawn into automatic habit mode. Acting without making conscious decisions can be a good thing when we are quickly folding the laundry or...
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If you are reading this blog, then it is time to write
Happy June! It’s summer here in the Northern hemisphere. For academics, professors on sabbatical, and moms juggling the demands of a fulltime job with a dissertation, summer roars in, knocking over...
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