I appreciated your post “The Second-Book Problem,” as it describes (more accurately than I care to admit) the situation I’m in. My first book was published in September 2020. It was nonfiction. There ...

Victoria Praise Abraham, a publisher and prolific writer specialises in motivational books. In this interview with Yetunde Oladeinde she talks about her journey so far as an author and the idea behind ...

Intrinsic motivation is when you are motivated by personal satisfaction or enjoyment instead of external factors like reward or punishment. There are ways to make tasks more intrinsically motivating.

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Who are they? Who are those people huddled around the large round table, shuffling papers, at Portsmouth’s Book and Bar? When the shuffling stops, the reading begins. Here gathers a group of people ...

Social media, reading and the fragmented schedules of academia can all eat into precious writing time. Based on her experience supervising PhD students, Zhen Sun offers advice for supporting doctoral ...

Launching from the semester’s end into summer is usually celebrated as a special kind of academic freedom, a chance to get lost in projects and flex your intellectual muscles. But what we’re hearing ...