Saturday, August 19, 2017. My newest pet peeve is the amount of emails I receive from predatory conference organizers. Many are not even remotely related to what I do and are fairly easy to delete. To make them look more real, they sometimes include the title of one of my publications in the email. My favorite is when they just copy the name of the first author from the publication, assuming incorrectly that this is the corresponding author. On the predatory journal fr.

Notes from a Creative Writing Teacher. Check out my autumn creative writing and literature classes. Two courses running at the Guildford Book Festival, two weekend writing classes at the Perth Pathways Centre, and a fun two day retreat at the Braemar Arts Festival.

Academics, teaching, books, technology, writing inspiration. Saturday, March 24, 2018. The conference cycle as it really is. 1 Call for papers comes out. That looks so interesting, and the conference is in a cool place! I have to submit something. Do I have something already written? Nah, but the New Direction will spur me to do better work.

Thursday, August 13, 2015. Musings about Tidiness and Things. Last night was Tiny Boy and a thunderstorm and being whacked repeatedly in the head. Glanced at that Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Book that is doing the rounds. But I tend to do summer purges so the timing was right. It did make me think more about why I was keeping certain things, rather than which.

Continually trying to survive the next level of academia. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Psyc girl tries a new home. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. So lots is changing chez Psyc Girl, both online and offline. Sunday, June 7, 2015.

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Honeststatusupdateblog at gmail dot com. All manner of thing shall be well. My Cheap Version of Therapy. All the Sun For You. Two Adults, One Child. Cutting myself a whole forest of slack. Checking in, in bullet points.

Still young enough to remember what it was like to survive the Swamps of PhD. Glad to have made it out of the Land of Postdoc. Excited to be treading down the Tenure Track. In control of everything - except my own life. Work, Life and Balance. And I so do not feel like it! Vrijdag 16 december 2016. Just today I was in a.

Buy or Try Scrivener Here. No-one likes to have their precious writing critiqued, and it can be very easy to feel defensive and annoyed. But remember a condition of academic writing is that we expose ourselves to critique. We must learn to accept this and realise how the review process can help us.