Putting the Virtual Pen Down: Reflections from 2017–2022 ✍️📚✨
This blog was my space to think out loud between 2017 and 2022—a place to process big transitions like moving from my PhD to postdoc life and making sense of the pandemic’s upheavals.
This blog was my space to think out loud between 2017 and 2022—a place to process big transitions like moving from my PhD to postdoc life and making sense of the pandemic’s upheavals.
Writing is hard. Some days, it gets even harder. Have you tried this?
Writing is hard. Some days, it gets even harder. Have you tried this?
While my academic writing is often all over the place, I have also developed several ideas to put myself in writing mode.
Maybe you’re returning to your book or dissertation after months of not touching it. Or maybe everything was fine these last few days and you suddenly cannot write anything at all.
These last few weeks, every time the sun was suddenly showing up, even for less than an hour, you would find me in a park a few minutes away from my flat, trying to...
Certains jours, écrire coule de source. D’autres, écrire est un calvaire. Mais alors, quels sont les paramètres qui entrent en jeu dans l’écriture et comment trouver “son” moment pour être dedans ?
Ce n’est qu’en dénouant nos angoisses entremêlées et nos anxiétés souvent émotionnelles s’abritant derrière des prétextes scientifiques (“je n’ai pas assez lu”, “je n’ai pas collecté assez de données”) qu’il me semble possible de (ré)apprendre à (aimer) écrire.
I believe that sharing is caring, that emotions belong to academic writing and that it’s okay, that your productivity never determines your worth, that showing vulnerability makes us more connected.
Aus aktuellem Anlass, like they say in German: A friend of mine is writing her first abstract (yeeyyy), asked for some advice, and I sent her a few links collected these past few years.
For the last month of this definitely weird year (aka 2020), I am gathering tips on academic life: writing, organizing, archiving, resting, enjoying.
Here are some tips about academic writing that I have been trying to apply for years and have made me feel guilty and powerless because they did not work for me.
The first blog post of the series of reflections on academic writing as a bodily experience—here on an apparently innocent question: how are you doing?
“Writing offers the chance to cultivate an attentiveness to life itself, and to enhance perceptions with the precision of words.” — Alive in the Writing, Narayan (2012: xi).
I am now approaching the end of my PhD in Linguistics. Along the way, I have discovered techniques to help me stay organised in my academic life and get access to online resources.