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Take Some Tips from a Writing and Editing Pro

Here’s a Smart Tip for all writers, editors, and professors:  Over the past year I have enjoyed a monthly e-newsletter called Ease in Writing: Writing Tips from Full Circle Communications. I think...

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A Timer Can Sharpen Your Focus and Increase Writing Productivity

Several of my dissertation coaching clients use timers on their computers to help them get started with a writing session, to stay focused, and to stick with their work.  It also helps them to stop at...

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Three Quick Fixes to Jolt You into Action on Your Dissertation

This is an encore of a blog post that appeared here April 30, 2008. Note:  If you haven’t signed up for my free e-newsletter, Smart Tips For Writers,  you can take care of that by going to my website...

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Winter Olympians’ Smart Strategies Can Help You Finish Your Dissertation

Is a non-negotiable deadline closing in on you?  Has it been set by your university?  Or is a job – perhaps a postdoc– resting on your finishing your dissertation soon? As you struggle to meet the...

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Revisiting “Is Your Dissertation a Big Rock?”

To Do: Dissertation likes my using the rocks metaphor in “Is Your Dissertation One of Your Big Rocks?”   Many thanks to ToDo, who has a tip for us– go to youtube   Thanks! What fun!   See you on...

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How Much Writing Did You Do Today? Track How You Are Spending Your Time

Perhaps what is true for one of my dissertation clients is also true for you.  She says that sometimes a day will pass, and she hasn’t done any writing. How do you use your time?  How are you spending...

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Breaking the all-or-nothing mentality

You’re frustrated that it is taking so much time to get to the dissertation finish line.  Do you minimize your efforts and withhold any sense of accomplishment for the work you’ve done to get this far?...

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Release those endorphins and write

“The idea for this post hit me today when I was at the gym, sweating profusely,” writes Larry Brooks in a blog post called “Blood, Sweat and Words: How Badly Do You Want This?” As I read his guest post...

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Commit to paper

“Commit to paper” is a common, but powerful  phrase. You don’t need to have already had the aha moment in order to write.  There’s no holding back when you allow yourself to see that you have enough to...

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Store Your Dissertation in the Cloud

Do you work on multiple computers? How are you dealing with the need to make optimum use of your time and to make headway on your dissertation no matter at which one of those multiple computers you...

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