To improve my writing skill, Sarah shared with me to attend a writing webinar hosted by Prof. Brian Martin at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Firstly, it was good to know that writing is a skill needed to be developed as it is not a natural skill. It means I have (huge) room for improvement.
Like athletes, we need to practice day by day and can be more productive without procrastinating or bingeing. I had always tried to write up a whole in a short period and got stressed.
He suggested that establishing a regular writing schedule will help to do so. New writing habitat should be no more than 20 min, and we should not look back to make sentences perfect. This is because editing is much easier than producing new lines in our doc.
During the webinar, his PhD students shared their experiences, and it was helpful to hear tips from non-native English speakers. The most useful advice was I should write sentences without checking grammar mistakes or uncertain words; even sentences become a mixture of English and Japanese. Another thing I need to keep in mind is just writing without reading literature. It can clarify ideas and reduce the time to read. I was grateful to learn these things before a big ARC grant writing comes.
I always take more than one hour to write this blog, but I am finishing in 20 min this time by showing another improvement in gardening skill.