Category: writing

• A gentle (re)turn to journaling

  Thank you for reading. If you are enjoying this blog, please subscribe, and consider supporting me to keep producing free content using this link. I used to be a dedicated journaller. At one point in my academic career it was the only writing I was doing. I used journaling to get through the pandemic. I spent entire train journeys…

  francescayoungkaufman

  January 5, 2024

  writing

  academia, creativity, Higher Education, journaling, research, wellbeing, working with a coach, workplace stress, writing

• What I’ve learned from 30 days of writing everyday

  Thank you for reading. If you are enjoying this blog, please subscribe, and consider supporting me to keep producing free content using this link. In November I wrote everyday on substack. November is NanNoWriMo – the national, now international, novel writing month where authors, aspiring and established, encourage one another to write the first draft…

  francescayoungkaufman

  December 7, 2023

  Uncategorized, writing

  academia, authors, blogging, Higher Education, nanowrimo, national-novel-writing-month, wellbeing, working with a coach, writers, writing

• On Writing

  I have been writing every day for November over on substack, in an online research diary. The daily substacks give little insights into my thought processes around the writing part of my life, ranging from notes on a research idea to my frustration at a disrupted evening when I had planned to write (this blog…

  francescayoungkaufman

  November 14, 2023

  Uncategorized, writing

  academia, Burnout, Higher Education, stress, trauma, wellbeing, writing