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Write Every Day
Write every day – even if it’s only for an hour broken into smaller segments. Make good writing habits. Once you have established your good writing habits, set realistic goals of writing two double-spaced pages a day. The next day, start where you left off and keep growing the document. If you can write two…
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Sit Down and WRITE!
When you have a long project, like a dissertation or scholarly book, you are writing, it is best to have writing rituals that will keep you on track. Most writers who are successful in their work write daily and schedule the time into their day to make sure they can focus on the task ahead.…
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Setting Goals and Sticking to a Calendar
Time management is key to accomplishing any task, especially one as complex as a dissertation. Too often students get overwhelmed or stuck and lose track of not only how to move forward, but how to do it in a timely fashion. In those situations, the most useful thing you can do to help yourself (assuming…
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The tattoo and the Ph.D.
I don’t have a tattoo. I probably won’t get one, but I do have a Ph.D. While the degree is one I’ve earned and will always be with me–kind of like a tattoo is permanent–the goals that got me the Ph.D. and the tattoo are different in their permanence. When I see people who have…
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When the going gets tough…
Working on your dissertation you suddenly realize that you hate the topic, the direction its going and the entire process. Those feelings, while not unusual, can make the going get really tough. How do you get going again? I’ve encountered that problem recently with a writer I’m coaching. The topic she chose more than a…