#26: Why writing is like sleeping
The Academic Imperfectionist
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How to Get Back to Sleep After a Meeting
Many of us make the mistake of thinking, i'll agree to join this committee. It's just two one hour meetings each term. We comeout a meeting a little dazed and exhausted, and then tell ourselves that we're lazy and undisciplined for not jumping right back into our writing. Often we don't see these things clearly because we're too busy beating ourselves up. The second way we can approach it is by breaking down the activity of writing into its various parts. That involves reading, making notes, presenting our works to other people, receiving feedback from others and using it to improve our writing.
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