Since we started the Studio Scholars program in September 2018, we’ve had the immense joy of being able to see—and help—a bunch of people making

You know, that one thing you’ve been avoiding opening, that makes you feel kind of sick to think about? It’s probably a document on your

This is a blog post about reading another blog post about how hard it is to do all the things. There’s something to the whole

Giant to-do lists can be so panic-inducing that they benefit from being tackled via analogy, with the cognitive distance that analogy provides. One analogy that

Usually at this time of year academics are marinating in an unsettling cocktail of burnout from the school year, hope/ambition for the summer, and trepidation that we won’t be able to meet those hopes and ambitions. But THIS year …

And it’s not only that we have not gotten much done; it’s also that it’s really hard to imagine a way forward. Usually another characteristic of the transition to summer is burnout. What do we even call what’s happening now, much less recover some kind of inspiration to do research?

This is part 2 of a blog entry on who our Studio Scholars tend to be. Part 1 is here. Here’s the preamble, in case

I have a confession: I was wrong about who our typical Studio Scholar would be. When we launched Academic Writers Studio and the Studio Scholars

One of the reasons I love what I do is that, frankly, I could really have used the kind of support I now provide when

We’ve been asked for a more “on-the ground” sense of day-to-day interactions at the Studio. Most of what we do, however, involves conversations that (a)

What a virtual community allows you to do is check in to the workier spaces when you’ve got your A game in effect and the more social spaces when you’re ready for that.

I have a theory that, despite appearing on a superficial level to have fewer days, February is being deceptive and is actually the longest month.

This February, turn a corner on writing your academic book or article manuscript by joining our annual writing challenge. Last year, Academic Writers Studio launched