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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
click here

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
Chronicle link
(posted by permission of The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Working with my ghost(ly) writer, the "slave within"
by Richard T Hull
click here

Beating the perfectionist paralysis
By R. Cruz-Barrera

click here

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
click here to download PDF

Cognitive Aspects of Writer's Block
Second in a Series
By Susan X Day
click here to download PDF

The Situational Aspect of Writer's Block
Third in a Series
By Susan X Day
click here to download PDF

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
click here

The Slave Within
by Richard T Hull
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Let us know what you think of these essays and/or consider writing your own. Send your thoughts and essays to TAA Publications Editor Kim Pawlak at kmpawlak@centurytel.net



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