WRITING RESOURCES
WEBSITES AND PROGRAMS
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
Wendy 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
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
Barbara Samecka, The Writing Workshop
Sonke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes
Helen Sword, The Writer's Diet
MORE RESOURCES
Solutions to Common Academic Writing Obstacles
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)
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
Quiet 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
Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Writing and Creativity
The Best Time to Write, According to Science
How to Stop Being a Binge Writer
The Secrets of Structure: Helen Sword and Margy Thomas on the Architecture of Academic Writing