Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I. Writing in Academe
1. Letting Go of the Dream
2. Demystifying Academic Writing
3. Craftsman Attitude
Part II. Using Tools That Work
4. Three Taming Techniques
5. Securing Time
6. Securing Space
7. Securing Energy
Part III. Challenging Writing Myths
8. Draining the Drama
9. Demons In for Tea
10. The Magnum Opus Myth
11. The Impostor Syndrome
12. The Cleared-Deck Fantasy
13. The Hostile Reader Fear
14. Compared with X
15. The Perfect First Sentence
16. One More Source
Part IV. Maintaining Momentum
17. Follow the Lilt
18. Beginnings and Endings
19. Finding the Lost Trail
20. Effective Feedback
21. Handling Revisions and Rejections
22. Working with Stalls
23. Relinquishing Toxic Projects
24. Back-Burner Projects
25. Breaks, Summers, and Sabbaticals
Part V. Building Writing Support
26. Overcoming Isolation
27. Creating Faculty Writing Groups
28. Building Campus Writing Support
Conclusion
Afterword: Writing for the Public
Bibliography
Index