This essay section is devoted to the experiences and issues of writing and writers, and will be published here as well as in a special section in the TAA print newsletter, The Academic Author. Interested in submitting an article? Writer's Guidelines

Hypergraphia: The overwhelming urge to write
A Conversation with Author Alice Flaherty About The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
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Punctuation, other stylistic rules: obstacle or opportunity?
By Dave Harris
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Find Your Own Voice
By Dave Harris
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Try Writing Outside Your Discipline
By Nick Sciullo
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Enacting the scholar role
by Sonja K. Foss and William Waters
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"Rumblings of A Dissertation Writer"
by Ms. Mentor (Chronicle of Higher Education Careers Section), December 5, 2006
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(posted by permission of The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Working with my ghost(ly) writer, the "slave within"
by Richard T Hull
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Beating the perfectionist paralysis
By R. Cruz-Barrera
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Cutting the E-mail Cord: One Writer's Recognition of the Relationship between Procrastination and Perfectionism
By Dominique T. Chlup
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Emotional Aspects of Writer's Block
First of a Series
By Susan X Day
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Cognitive Aspects of Writer's Block
Second in a Series
By Susan X Day
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The Situational Aspect of Writer's Block
Third in a Series
By Susan X Day
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How to get your writer's block into remission
By Don Collins
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Autopsy of an Anderson Cooper Script
By Mervin Block
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The Value of Incremental Writing
by Richard T Hull
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The Slave Within
by Richard T Hull
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