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Juggling, jigsaws, and navigating by the stars: making reasonable plans

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Jo VanEvery

Night-time camping scene with a dark blue sky full of stars and the only light coming from an orange tent to the left. A lone silhouetted star-gazer looks up to the stars with a bright headtorch beaming towards the sky. A glowing campfire is on the right.

 Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Juggling, jigsaws, and navigating by the stars I’ve written before about juggling as a metaphor for planning out your workload. Consider all of the things you want and need to do, at work and outside of work, as the box of things a juggler could be … [Read more...] about Juggling, jigsaws, and navigating by the stars: making reasonable plans

Filed Under: Audio Version Available, Career Planning, Developing a Practice, Finding Your Way, Planning, Research, Self-confidence Tagged With: audio, audio version available, autonomy, boundaries, goals, perfectionism, priorities, rest, saying no, vision, writing

Dealing with the loss of a physical boundary between work and home

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Jo VanEvery

black scrabble letters arranged to spell out "work from home" during these pandemic times.

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Dealing with the loss of a physical boundary between work and home The pandemic has made us all hyper-aware of how much of what we’d come to tolerate as “just how things are” is actually deeply unacceptable. The pandemic has not created an impossible to … [Read more...] about Dealing with the loss of a physical boundary between work and home

Filed Under: Audio Version Available, Developing a Practice, Ethos & Influences, Experiments, Self-care, Writing Tagged With: Academic Writing Studio, audio, audio version available, boundaries, Focus, priorities, rest, saying no, support, writing

You are not broken. You don’t need fixing.

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Jo VanEvery

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Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · You are not broken. You don't need fixing. One of the comments I got from my editor when working on the Short Guides was "What do you want them to do with this information?" She was really not happy with a prompt that asked the reader to notice something without … [Read more...] about You are not broken. You don’t need fixing.

Filed Under: Audio Version Available, Developing a Practice, Ethos & Influences, Self-confidence Tagged With: audio, audio version available, autonomy, goals, priorities, support, vision, writing

Write every day?

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Jo VanEvery

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This is a question that comes up a lot in advice about academic writing, or any kind of writing really. And it came up during the December 2018 Planning Your Winter Semester class in the Academic Writing Studio. A lot of people encourage you to write every day. You may think that because I have … [Read more...] about Write every day?

Filed Under: Audio Version Available, Developing a Practice, Ethos & Influences, Experiments, Writing Tagged With: audio, audio version available, writing

Making writing challenges like #AcWriMo work for you

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Jo VanEvery

I am writing this part way through November 2017. A few years ago Charlotte Frost and her team at PhDtoPublished got the bright idea to make an academic version of #NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and call it #AcWriMo. PhDtoPublished is geared to early career researchers and particularly … [Read more...] about Making writing challenges like #AcWriMo work for you

Filed Under: Developing a Practice, Learned in Yoga class, Writing Tagged With: AcWriMo, Foundations of an Academic Writing Practice, goals, writing

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