In this episode, President and executive writing coach Christine Tulley talks about the strategy of giving yourself a choice when faced with a day you don’t feel like writing. Choosing one of the options still moves writing forward.

Don’t forget about the wonderful resources at Textbook & Academic Authors Association. The organization can be found at: https://www.taaonline.net/

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In this episode, President and executive writing coach Christine Tulley interviews Kim Pawlak, Director of Publishing & Operations at Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA).

TAA has recently become a sponsor of the Defend & Publish podcast and this interview showcases the many services and scholarly writing products available at TAA.

• New TAA members can use the coupon code TAADP10 for $10 off an annual membership. You will also receive a copy of the eBook, Guide to Making Time to Write: 100+ Time & Productivity Management Tips for Textbook and Academic Authors. 
• As part of AcWriMo in November, we are also opening up the TAA Conversation Circle and November 9 TAA Webinar, Textbook Authoring Inspirations, Insights, and Innovations, to non-members. If you would like to add that as well!

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In this episode, President and executive writing coach Christine Tulley describes the simple, yet effective writing project management strategy of creating an archive folder. In this episode she walks through making an archive folder and the decision making process about what goes in and what stays out of the archive.

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In this episode, President and executive writing coach Christine Tulley describes several of her favorite academic productivity podcasts.

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Podcasts referenced:

• The Productivity Show
• The Academic Life 
• Research Pages 
• 100 Mistakes Academics Make 

In this episode, President and executive writing coach Christine Tulley describes one of the first questions she asks clients when they are stuck: What worked before? Using this question as a guide, she looks at solutions that might work after dry spells of not writing as well as writing blocks.

EPISODES REFERENCED IN THIS PODCAST:

• Episode 82: Creative Faculty Offices 

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In this episode, President and executive writing coach Christine Tulley describes how much writing she actually could do when tracking time across a single week. A screenshot of her writing time can be found here.

Resources Mentioned in this Podcast

• Christine Tulley’s Chart of her Writing Time

Episodes Referenced

• EP 90: How I Got Back into Writing after a Month Off - Podcast | Video

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In this episode, President and executive writing coach Christine Tulley describes how she employs fixed schedule productivity based on a blog post by Robert Talbert.

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EPISODES REFERENCED IN THIS PODCAST:

• EP 89: How I Got into Writing after a Month off
• EP 35: Cut Teaching Prep with Pattern Teaching

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In this episode, President and executive writing coach Christine Tulley describes the specific steps she used to get started writing after taking off a month due to various family obligations, school starting up, and other interruptions.

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Episodes referenced:

• EP 75: I Tried Penzu for Logging Writing
• EP 46: Using Asana to Manage a Big Revision

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In this episode, President and executive writing coach Christine Tulley describes an upcoming workshop on overcoming writing slowdowns.

• Registration information can be found here.
• Description of the slow professor movement referenced in this episode can be found here.
• Description of pattern teaching (also described as modular teaching in James Lang’s book Distracted)

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In this episode, President and executive writing coach Christine Tulley describes an upcoming workshop series on writing documents for the academic job hunt as well as differences in the academic job hunt this year.

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