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How to Write a Lot
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing | Paul J. Silvia
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All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to finish their stalled dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. In this practical, light-hearted, and encouraging book, Paul Silvia explains that writing productively does not require innate skills or special traits but specific tactics and actions. Drawing examples from his own field of psychology, he shows readers how to overcome motivational roadblocks and become prolific without sacrificing evenings, weekends, and vacations. After describing strategies for writing productively, the author gives detailed advice from the trenches on how to write, submit, revise, and resubmit articles, how to improve writing quality, and how to write and publish academic work.
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It was good motivation, but ultimately “write one hour every day” isn‘t enough grist for a full book. There are a lot of other tips, but I generally found them to be too specific to academic psychology to be of real use to me.

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“Novelists and poets are the landscape artists and portrait painters; academic writers are the people with big paint sprayers who repaint your basement.”

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Hoping I can actually apply some of this advice!

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Here‘s hoping the second edition motivates me more than the first one did! 🤞🏽

#writersoflitsy #profsoflitsy #teachersoflitsy

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