WRITING RESOURCES
INKWELL Writing Retreats Blog by Michelle Boyd (Subscribe to this)
National Center for Faculty Diversity and Development Dissertation Curriculum (requires University subscription)
Kel Weinhold, TPII, UNSTUCK Free Productivity Webinars and Blog
BOOKS
Laura Belcher, How to Write Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks
Peg Single Boyle, Demystifying Dissertation Writing
Michael Chibnik, Scholarship, Money, and Prose: Behind the Scenes at an Academic Journal
Neil Fiore, The NOW Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
Twyla Harp, The Creative Habit
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Sarah Lewis, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
Cal Newport, Deep Work
Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Shane O'Mara, In Praise of Walking
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
ESSAYS AND ARTICLES
Why the Modern World is Bad For Our Brain" (from his book The Organized Mind)
Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to do With Self-Control)
What's the Point? The Dissertation as Process and not as Product
Mountain Climbing and Dissertation Writing
The No-Fail Secret to Writing a Dissertation
Will Your Interdisciplinary Dissertation Pay Off?
Your Dissertation Begins with Your First Seminar
Dear First-Time Author: How to Turn Your Dissertation Into a Book
The Confidence Gap in Academic Writing
Forced Creativity? Why Daily Writing Works
What the Research Says: On Writing Daily
Get Outta My Head: The Importance of Making Writing Mistakes
How Academics Survive the Writing Grind
Quite the Noise: What to Do when You're Writing Defensively
Your Writing is Inefficient, and That's OK
Breaking the Perfectionism Procrastination Infinite Loop
Kill Your Darlings: Finding More Time to Write When There is No Time to Write
How to Build a Life in the Humanities
Why Your Brain Needs More Downtime
Later: What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?
Learning To Let Go: How to Unplug From Your Work
How Exercise Makes Your Brain Work Better