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5 Tips for Writers Limited by a Chronic Illness

November 28, 2018

Writers with chronic illnesses, whether that’s fibromyalgia, mental health issues, ALS, multiple sclerosis, etc., often feel like we are seriously limited in our ability to produce quality work. Here are five tips to help you do what you can without using up all of your spoons.

Tags blogging, chronic illness, content creation, editing, public face, reading, recycle, reuse, social media, spoonie, writing

NaNoWriMo is Hard

November 14, 2018

Writing every day is a great way to get words on the page that you can fine tune later. Since November 1 I’ve been participating … Read more

Tags #wordsmatter, Anne Lamott, books, daily practice, Dani Shapiro, editing, NaNoWriMo, shitty first drafts, words, writing, writing advice

Gardening as Editing

June 27, 2018

There’s a Dutch landscape designer whose work I really admire. Piet Oudolf has been creating lush garden landscapes for over 35 years. His goal is … Read more

Tags copy editing, developmental editing, editing, flowers, gardening, gardens, grasses, landscape design, mass planting, Piet Oudolf, plants, proofreading, structural editing

Writing a Book (Part 2)

May 9, 2018

The past few months have been pretty busy. Then suddenly it all stopped, with the exception of one book review for Science. As I wrote … Read more

Tags Audre Lorde, autobiography, Banff Centre, book, community building, editing, emotion, Faith Kearns, Jan Redford, language, Lou Woodley, memoir, mental health, mountains, relationship building, scicomm, science communication, science writing, sciwri, voice, women in STEM, words, writing

Improve Your Productivity By Making Time for Rest

March 7, 2018

If you’ve read my blog for a while, you know that, because of my illness, I have limited time in the day to do things … Read more

Tags academia, art, Creativity, disability, editing, productivity, reading, rest, slow scholarship, walking, work, writing

A few last words before my blog hiatus

December 13, 2017

*Edited Dec 13 to add link to post on Bernadette Conant, CEO of Canadian Water Network. *Edited Dec 14 to add link to Editors BC … Read more

Tags #wordsmatter, Christmas, citizen science, climate change, community science, disability, editing, equity, fake news, language, mental health, scicomm, science communication, science literacy, spoonie, womeninSTEM

How's Your Inner Life These Days?

August 23, 2017

Today instead of a Wednesday links post I’ve decided to write a regular post with a few links thrown in. —- Over the past few … Read more

Tags academia, community, Creativity, cycling, eclipse, editing, history, kayaking, landscape, life, nature, outdoors, place, progress, quiet, social media, thinking, writing

Wednesday on the Web: 5 Jul Edition

July 5, 2017

Science funding in Canada A new report from the Global Young Academy, spearheaded by three Canadian professors, determined that 40% of Canadian scientists had turned … Read more

Tags Anthropocene, applied research, basic research, cdnsci, cli-fi, copy editors, editing, Global Young Academy, Naylor Report, scicomm, science communication, science funding, scipolicy, solastalgia, urban prairie, writing

Catching Up

May 29, 2017

So in my last post I wrote that – as much as I might like to – I wouldn’t be able to attend Frances Peck’s … Read more

Tags blogging, book review, conservation, CSP, editing, Lab Girl, professional development, womeninSTEM, writing

De-Mystifying the Process of Writing a Scientific Paper

April 28, 2016

Writing science papers can be a challenge, especially given that scientists aren’t really trained in how to write. I have a guest post up at … Read more

Tags best practices, editing, journal article, research papers, science editing, science writing, scientific paper, writing

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