The habit consists of the cue, routine and reward. If you have a highly structured life, it’s relatively easy to develop even such a monster discipline like a writing habit. Stephen King, for example, ...

This is gonna be your year, the year you win NaNoWriMo. There are plenty of hurdles to clear ahead — even with just one week left — including the 15 habits that will kill your NaNoWriMo manuscript ...

Last summer I found myself sitting in front of a blank document on my computer. I had a cup of decaf by my side and was taking desultory bites of huevos rancheros. I had been sitting there for a ...

Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it.

As Wendy Belcher said in her 2009 book Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success: “Writing is to academia what sex was to nineteenth-century Vienna: ...

Early in the pandemic, when we all went home to work and teach, I started looking for ways to ward off the gloom of isolation. The idea I settled on was simple: Ground myself in routine by organizing ...

The 5-week Academic Habit Hack is designed to usher on super small, incremental changes in the way that you do school. By now, you've either developed or fallen into a way of being a student and those ...

Brady Krien is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature and an MLIS student at the University of Iowa where he works as a Graduate Careers and Fellowships Advisor in the Grad Success Center. You can ...

I've been a writer since I mastered cursive back in the second grade. Proudly, I have moved on from scribbling in the wide-ruled pages of my Trapper Keeper to typing 80 words a minute on a pricey ...

The 5-week Academic Habit Hack is designed to usher on super small, incremental changes in the way that you do school. By now, you've either developed or fallen into a way of being a student and those ...