Habits and streaks

I think most of us know that "A streak is something – anything, really – that happens over a period of time without a break. It’s a typ...

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Writing and reflection

If we aren't familiar with reflective writing, but want to give it a try, there is a simple exercise we can do. Over four days, taking m...

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Reflecting on PD

Over the past couple of years I have written a few posts on the intersection between professional development and reflection ( here , and lo...

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A galactic outcome: 6 million words

Reflection: what is it good for? Well, long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I reached a milestone of 6 million words in my 750words ac...

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Still 750wording after all these years

I realised that I haven't mentioned my daily writing on 750words.com for a while. I have written about this before here , but to reca...

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Two Million Words

Having written about the benefits of using 750words.com a number of times (articles here ), suddenly two million words have been racked u...

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I write, therefore I am

Three years ago I decided that my blog strategy would be to write posts as I came by the inspiration, but to schedule those posts so that ...

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One Million Words

I have written about the benefits I have gained from using 750words.com a number of times (see the list here ). However, a couple of mont...

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Driscoll and Reflection

I have recently being doing a FutureLearn course called "Discovering Your PhD Potential" ( here ). As part of that course, we we...

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Inspiration to write

In undertaking a MOOC recently on academic writing at Berkeley, I was asked by another student on the course how I got the inspiration to ...

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How I am using 750 words

As you will have no doubt previously read, I joined a website called 750words.com on 11 November 2015. Since then, I have been writing ...

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Blogs and Bloggers

(w3tech, 2015) As you will all know, I signed up to a site called 750words.com , which encourages you to write each and every day. Th...

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750 Words

Having completed Dr Inger Mewburn's MOOC, How to Survive Your PhD, recently, I am currently working through all the links and tips I h...

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