The back cover blurb you’re fond of might be a little long. A lot of times it’s just because there isn’t enough room for it on paperbacks (the actual real-world space) and the editor trim it down to make it work on design. More likely, though, you wrote what you wanted to say instead of […]

It’s happening: Your deadline looms, and you realize your manuscript has grown longer then necessary. How long until it’ll be shipshape? You click the mouse. And then the blinking cursor stare back, taunting you. Writers tend to default to their typical reading speed when proofreading, which isn’t the best method. Because proofreading is an act […]

There’s nothing like being 3-minutes over your allotted time with the mic about to be pulled from your hands by the moderator before you’ve even finished a sentence. This usually stems from confusion over speaking pace versus reading speed, which almost never match up under pressure. So you wrote out your speech, timed yourself reading […]

It’s another day. You grab your copy of new journal in your field, pour yourself a cup of coffee and begin to read. The title seem right; the abstract sounded relevant; it is only 45 minutes until your next meeting. It begins. Ten pages later, you’re hopelessly stuck in statistics, confused about a figure that […]