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.
Brain Surgeries and Breakthroughs: My Interview with Jen Riday (Part Three—The Most Important Thing)
In the last post in the series, I talk about the most important thing I've learned in the nine years I've had Camurati-Engelmann Disease.
Brain Surgeries and Breakthroughs: My Interview with Jen Riday (Part Two—Rock Bottom)
In the second part of the series I get more personal about some of the interview questions and I talk about my rock-bottom moment - the moment that changed everything.
Brain Surgeries and Breakthroughs: My Interview with Jen Riday (Part One—The Preamble)
The first of a three-part personal series inspired by my podcast interview with Jen Riday. I talk about living with a rare incurable condition called Camurati-Engelmann Disease and what I've learned from five brain surgeries in nine years.
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).
How to Save Hours of Writing Time
What Ron Swanson of Parks and Recreation can teach you about writing.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (About Me)
Here's where I tell you all the things about me and what I do.
Keep It Simple, Smartypants.
Does your grandma understand your writing? Great. You're a genius.
We're All Impostors.
If you feel like you're walking around with F-R-A-U-D tattooed on your forehead, join the club. Here's what I do to handle the impostor syndrome.