In this week’s episode of the Love, Academic Writing podcast, the Love Doctors, Allison and Lee, talk about this week’s writing but: BUT WRITER’S BLOCK!

Click here to get your buts therapized for free on the podcast! 

Lee takes you through their latest bout of so-called block (turns out, it was just a bunch of excuses!) and some strategies for getting unblocked:

1. not beating the shit out of yourself for not writing

2. celebrating the small wins, and

3. creating minimum baselines. So minimum you can't not meet them. 

Plz plz plz rate and review the show so that other writers can find it! The struggle is real.

Connect with Allison @postphdtheblog or at allisonharbin.com

Connect with Lee @rhetoriclee or leempierce.com

In the inaugural episode of the Love, Academic Writing podcast, the Love Doctors, Allison and Lee, talk about this week’s writing but: BUT WRITER’S BLOCK!

Click here to get your buts therapized for free on the podcast! 

Plz plz plz rate and review the show so that other writers can find it! The struggle is real.

“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.” ~James Baldwin

Plz plz plz rate and review the show so that other writers can find it! The struggle is real.

Is writer’s block real? What exactly is the “block”? Did you put it there or did someone else? Is the block depression, in which case maybe you need a break. Or is it just that you aren’t sure of your argument, in which case you need to write. Are you in Jesus’s cave or Plato’s? If you asked Eve Sedgwick or Audre Lorde if they had writer’s block while they were dying of cancer they probably would have said, “I have writer’s block all the time, that’s the whole reason I write.”

When you’re thinking (or bitching to someone else), that you have writer’s block, think about what you actually mean: 

• I don’t know what I’m trying to say
• This essay is a mess
• I’m never going to figure this out
• Nobody cares about this
• I don’t have enough theory. 

Connect with Allison @postphdtheblog or at allisonharbin.com

Connect with Lee @rhetoriclee or leempierce.com

Get ready for the Love Academic Writing (and hopefully other kinds of writing too) podcast! Hosted by Dr. Lee Pierce, assistant professor and rhetorical scholar, and Dr. Allison Harbin, academic-exile, freelance writer, blogger, and dev editor. Together, they are the Love Writing Doctors! (It’s funny because they ARE doctors). They are here to help you stop whining and start writing…through a LOT of bitching.

Click here to get your buts therapized for free on the podcast! 

Each episode tackles a different writing excuse. But I don’t have time. But all the emailz. But neoliberalism. Some of them are entitled bullshit. And some of them are for real, like, “but my depression” and “but black mold in my apartment.” We’ll cover them all…eventually…

Plz plz plz rate and review the show so that other writers can find it! The struggle is real.

Whether you’re an academic exile freelancing Ph.D. or a tenure track faculty at a cutthroat R1, if you need to get more words on the page, this is the podcast for you. So hit subscribe and look for the first episodes coming your way in late summer 2022.

In the meantime, you can connect with us on social media. You can even sign up now to get your writing buts therapized for free. Therapy for yer butts. It’s all in the show notes. 

Connect with Allison @postphdtheblog or at allisonharbin.com

Connect with Lee @rhetoriclee or leempierce.com