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This morning I had a Skype call with a US-based co-author. She was spending a week writing on an island near Goteborg, Sweden with another co-author. She called it ‘bliss’.<\/p>\n
We’re so lucky to have Newcastle University’s H&SS faculty support our own ECR Writing Retreat. As it is soon\u00a0upon us, I wanted to help set the scene for a great session.<\/p>\n
Here is a link<\/a> to the always enlightening Pat Thomson’s blog ‘patter’ on academic writing. She explains that she finds it helpful to aim to write in ‘chunks’ rather than targeting a number of words or pages.<\/p>\n How many ‘chunks’ away are you from finishing that section? Completing a draft? How many ‘chunks’ will you write today? This week?<\/p>\n At the beginning and end of each day of the retreat, we discuss goals and progress. How many writing chunks further can we get?<\/p>\n Plans are afoot to resume the ECR Writing Club’s regular sessions once the marking period ends —\u00a0 we can’t wait to get back into the writing groove — chunks at a time!<\/p>\n Photo by\u00a0mauro paillex<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning I had a Skype call with a US-based co-author. She was spending a week writing on an island near Goteborg, Sweden with another co-author. She called it ‘bliss’. We’re so lucky to have Newcastle University’s H&SS faculty support … Continue reading