Podcast Episodes

Make Your Manuscript Work: An Interview with Laura Portwood-Stacer

An interview with Laura Portwood-Stacer about her new book, Make Your Manuscript work. 

In March 2025 I wrote about the difficulty of writing a “shitt…

1 year, 1 month ago

An advanced writing practice

Another yoga analogy. Sometimes the advanced practice is knowing that what your writing project needs is for you to go for a long walk and think abou…

1 year, 2 months ago

Coming back to a neglected project

The first writing session working on a project you haven't worked on in a while is tough. 

In this track I talk about what kind of work might be invol…

1 year, 2 months ago

What should you do next?

Do you have several writing projects, in various states of completion, that you *could* be working on? Are you overwhelmed by choice? Are you not wor…

1 year, 2 months ago

Embrace the research process

Research and writing are creative processes. There is real value in just embracing the process and trusting that it will lead to something that is go…

1 year, 2 months ago

Finding your way back to writing

Have you stopped writing? Would you like writing to be a thing you do again? 

15-minute sessions can be particularly helpful for finding your way back…

1 year, 2 months ago

The power of 15 minutes a day

An excerpt from my Short Guide: Finding Time for your Scholarly Writing, in which I talk about how 15 minutes a day can complement your longer sessio…

1 year, 2 months ago

The benefits of working small

Another track in which I apply something I learned in yoga class to your writing practice. There can be real benefits to working on small things in s…

1 year, 2 months ago

I hate goals

If setting goals leads to feeling like a failure, you will be gratified to know that you don't need to set goals to achieve things. 

I propose an alte…

1 year, 2 months ago

Permission to think big thoughts

Another track about what 'counts' as writing. Although it doesn't look much like work, doing the intellectual work of figuring out what you are going…

1 year, 2 months ago