Tag: writer's block
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Overcoming Writer’s Block: 4 Effective Strategies
Four strategies for offsetting writer’s block. Most graduate students and faculty members write under the looming presence of a deadline. For me, it can produce writer’s block. I’ve learned the hard way that a deadline quelches my ability to think creatively and introduces panic to my writing. Since becoming a mother eons ago, I’ve learned…
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Maximize Your Writing Efficiency with a Writer’s Notebook
A writer’s notebook can be a place to think through ideas. It can enhance productivity and speed the process when it comes time for writing.
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Mindful Writing: How Notebooks Fuel Creativity
As a Way to Focus Thinking and Develop Ideas Poets, writers, and painters often keep a process-oriented journal that records ideas as they evolve. Authors keep a notebook to jot down ideas and focus attention. Picking up the notebook each morning is a type of mindfulness. It’s a meditation but one whose attention is to…