How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

by Paul J. Silvia

The secret is the regularity, not the number of days or the number of hours.

these are concrete goals.

First, watching your progress keeps your goals salient,

Second, merely monitoring your behavior will help you sit down and write.

Finally, monitoring your

writing will help you set better goals.

Reward yourself when you finish a project goal. Self-reinforcement and contingency management are time honored ways of fostering desirable behaviors

Never reward writing with not writing.

struggle with style, pick On Writing Well (Zinsser, 2001) and Junk English (Smith, 2001).

The Writer’s Book of Hope (Keyes, 2003), Professors as Writers (Boice, 1990), and Stephen King’s On Writing (2000).