This book, by a psychologist with two decades of investment in writers, depicts his programs for instilling patience, pacing, constancy, and resilience in writing. He shows how writers proceed to comfort and fluency by detailing strategies, rules, and turning points for a diversity of writers--professional, professorial, and otherwise. The result is a thorough-going discussion of what helps writers and a review of the broad literature that program participants found most helpful.
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ROBERT BOICE is Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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This really is the program that can get writers to stop gnashing their teeth and pulling their hair. Everything-- all of the recommendations, are based on sound behavioral principles. Each word makes perfect sense and all of the strategies are absolutely superb. I was writing on and off in occasional spurts followed by depressing dry spells. Now I'm 200 pages into a contracted book for Oxford Press. When I read it the first time I thought that I'd really learned a ton, but the second time through showed me even more. This is one of those books that writers should read every year, like Strunk and White's "Elements of Style."
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Robert Boice uses years and years of experience dealing with the psychology of writers to finally expose EXACTLY HOW writers journey to comfort and fluency. This book discusses the psychological traps writers fall into, the corners they back themselves into, and how to get out of them. With real-world examples and actual how-to exercises, this book reveals how writers think and work, and gives them the tools to solve real writing problems. The author deals with everything from procrastination to writing rituals to creating a positive working environment for ultimate fluency and comfort. It's truly a godsend for writers who want to understand themselves and expand their knowledge of the universal problems writers face.
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How Writers Journey to Comfort and Fluency: A Psychological AdventureWhat should attract and stimulate a writer to join the journey (initiators)? What keeps him on track (maintainers)? This is the psychological approach. (The author is a cognitive psychologist and he knows it.) In addition follows a set of methodological recommendations which directly further the efficiency of the writer's production, e.g.: - write in bds (brief daily sessions# - know when to stop #self-discipline# - don't binge - motivation relies on moderation #getting more from less# - spend as much time on prewriting as on prosewriting. Especially for students at the beginning of their academic study this book has a high rate of return and a short pay back period. #Willem Baris) wm.baris@gmail.com
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When we write with both calm and confidence at hand, we work in an ideal state of motivation, one marked by patience and enthusiasm much like Jane Austen's. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conceptual outlining, moderating hypomania, publishing for academic authors, finding imagination, mild happiness, blocking tendencies, regular pauses, creative madness, finding motivation, writing blocks, worse the writer, conceptual outline, much time socializing, motivating ourselves, writing sites, free writing, wise passiveness, blocked writers, passive waiting, daily sessions, regular involvement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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When we write with both calm and confidence at hand, we work in an ideal state of motivation, one marked by patience and enthusiasm much like Jane Austen's. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conceptual outlining, moderating hypomania, publishing for academic authors, finding imagination, mild happiness, blocking tendencies, regular pauses, creative madness, finding motivation, writing blocks, worse the writer, conceptual outline, much time socializing, motivating ourselves, writing sites, free writing, wise passiveness, blocked writers, passive waiting, daily sessions, regular involvement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Higher Education, Albert Ellis, Oxford University Press, Ayn Rand, Garden City, Los Angeles, Cambridge University Press, Dorothea Brande, Joanna Field, Linda Flower, Peter Elbow, University Press of America, Wright Mills, Written Communication, College English, Donald Murray, Psychological Review, Psychological Science, San Francisco, Harry Browne, Harvard University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Adam Smith, Freshman English News New!
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- Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Adam Smith by R. H. Campbell on page 213, and page 232
- Teach Yourself Applied Psychology by Nicky Hayes on page 80, and Back Matter
- Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research by J.C. Smart on page 232
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