Beauty and Writing
Dear Real Academics, I like to write. However, when I was in graduate school, I started to dislike writing...a lot. Is this you? Or perhaps you already really dislike writing? Here I want to share one tip I learned from being in the P.O.W.E.R. writing services that helped rekindle my love for writing and which, I believe, can help anyone become a more motivated and perhaps even better writer. That one tip is to read something beautiful. That's right. If you are an academic writer, chances are that you are immersed in reading technical genres of writing. To be frank, most academic writing is, unfortunately, not beautifully written. As a human, I believe a little bit of my soul starts to die if I am not exposed to beautiful things after long-periods of time. Perhaps that's why it's so important for me to remember to take a walk and look at the sky or to appreciate art and music and to read beautiful things. Beauty does something good to my soul. For a writer -- ...