• How to enjoy writing #22: confront the creepiness of LLMs head on

• How to enjoy writing #21: make your peace with the fact you don’t have creative freedom

• How to enjoy writing #20: being a writer means being good at AI

• How to enjoy writing #19: not everything you write has to become something

• How to enjoy writing #18: understand where the ideas which influence you come from

• How to enjoy writing #17: creative confidence means accepting the tensions in how you think

• How to enjoy writing #16: don’t impose a shape on things too quickly

• “neologistic excess is an abuse of language that turns thought into a pile of words, into delirium”

• How to enjoy writing #15: Word acrobatics performed with both harness and net

• How to enjoy writing #14: using generative AI as an interlocutor

• How to enjoy writing #13: Only ideas won by walking have any value

• How to enjoy writing #12: Claude’s ecology of ideas self-assessment tool

• How to enjoy writing #11: cultivating an ecology of ideas

• How to enjoy writing #10: a poetic interlude from Claude

• How to enjoy writing #9: Identifying and valuing your encounters with ideas

• How to enjoy writing #8: my AI collaborator offers initial reflections on the series so far

• How to enjoy writing #7: Knowing when (and why) to stop writing

• How to enjoy writing #6: procrastination is your friend, not your enemy

• How to enjoy writing #5: keep trying to say what you’re trying to say

• How to enjoy writing #4: embracing creative non-linearity

• How to enjoy writing #3: being realistic about how long you can spend writing

• How to enjoy writing #2: placing limits on your writing

• How to enjoy writing #1: capturing your fringe thoughts

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing

• Turns out I have a similar approach to writing to Slavoj Žižek. Unsure how I feel about this.

• The urgent need to understand scholarship as a process, prioritising ideas over outputs

• The most gifted polymath of the 20th century reproaching himself about his laziness

• I produced this 5000 word paper in 17 mins. We’re all doomed.

• The philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) on how ludicrous it would be to expect academics to publish papers every 6 months

• Trinity College, after The Fall

• ChatGPT can analyse and compare images

• Are you a map-maker or a bungee jumper with your writing?

• How often do you interrupt yourself?

• On stopping when you’ve still got something to say

• “My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies”

• Chekhov’s gun in academic writing

• Using generative AI to analyse your writing

• The strange intimacy of marginalia

• Lauren Berlant on writing in a parenthetical voice

• Tfw the only sections left in your book are the difficult ones you have been putting off

• The slow destruction of ‘the immediacy of the written word’ as technology develops

• Possibly my favourite part of being an academic

• A Lacanian approach to ChatGPT

• Nothing is more entertaining than fucking with words and their arrangement

• Focusing on the process rather than the outcomes

• In defence of thinking in a speculative way

• But then why do you write? Nietzsche on the necessity of getting rid of your thoughts

• Publishing a compendium of chapters or going for the magnum opus

• Nick Cave on loss and improvisation

• The unconscious fluency of writing

• Should you write every day?

• On being reflexive about how you e-mail

• Who is writing this blog?

• The tremendously efficient writing of Slavoj Žižek

• The light we steal when we learn

• The pleasures which superstar professors have access too

• Your authorial fingerprint

• The light we steal when we write our books

• A manifesto for writing and publishing differently

• Getting hold of ideas while they are clear: note taking as a creative practice

• The intimacy of writing

• 😪 How not to prepare the second edition of a book 😪

• Thinking with your feet 

• Losing yourself in Westeros

• Carrying a book around inside your head

• Fast and slow writing in the accelerated academy

• Sociological micro-fiction

• Why do I write?

• The transformation of academic writing and the challenge of ephemera

• Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens

• Do academics write badly because they’re rushing?

• The challenge of writing in the accelerated academy

• Early Career Researcher Event: Sociological Review Writing Retreat

• the purpose of the morphogenetic approach and the role of social ontology

• Writing praxes beyond papers and books

• The advice given by W.E.B. Dubois to his teenage daughter

• The Promise of the Pivot Format

• imagining an academy in which academics were paid not to write

• The Challenge of Sociological Writing w/ @AcademicDiary, @thesiswhisperer & @ThomsonPat

• neil gaiman’s 8 rules of writing

• the challenge of sociological writing

• reflections on preparing to finish a book

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#19)

• Normal service has been resumed: I will never trying closing my personal blog again

• The limitations of academic talk

• Biography and/as Experiment Fiction

• If this works reliably then I want one now

• An introduction to Design Fiction for Sociologists, May 13th at Goldsmiths

• Using fiction to write about your research

• How to turn a wallet full of cards into a book

• How to use @Artefact_Cards for academic writing

• The value of blogging for part-time PhD students

• Some thoughts on sociological writing

• Seven reasons why blogging is academically valuable

• How to get started on a sociology essay

• Free online writing and communication workshop for community organisations

• Learning to say ‘no’ in #highered

• Why does the iPhone matter to us?

• Struggling to put words to an idea

• When writing on the iPad becomes a pleasure rather than a chore