How to Write a Lot
By Paul Silvia, 2007

How to Write a Lot discusses the not-so-secret secrets of academic writing. The main argument of the book can be distilled into this sentence: Schedule your writing time, and stick to the schedule so that writing becomes a habit. Prolific writers write according a schedule. Binge writers, never finding time for writing and always facing deadlines, don’t end up writing much.

This book was a quick read and funny in places. The introductory chapters and the chapter about style were the most useful for me. The rest of the book delved a little too deeply into the specifics of writing in the psychology field. The details about how to write journal articles and books focused upon psychology articles/books, but some insights can be gleaned for any field.

One of my goals is to begin to structure my time more wisely this summer. Here’s hoping that I begin to write a lot.