What Counts as PhD Writing?

(You’ve been writing all along: come to the live workshop tomorrow and I'll show you)

September carries a strange kind of pressure.

A new academic year begins, and suddenly there’s this silent urgency to prove you’ve started strong. To open the document. To move the chapter forward. To show visible progress. Even if your brain is still somewhere in late July.

But what if the real work’s already happening?

In the background reading that’s pulling you sideways.
In the way you keep returning to one sentence in an old paper.
In the conversation where you finally said what your research is actually about.

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Tomorrow (Tuesday), I’m running a short live session at 3pm BST called:

What Counts as Writing?
A soft, smart reframe for the Everything Months

We’ll map out what academic work actually looks like — the kind that happens in voice notes, email drafts, nervous system pauses, and all the places progress isn’t usually tracked.

Afterwards, we’ll roll into a live lounge — an unstructured space to bring your own question, contradiction, resistance, or realisation. Nothing performative. Just… what’s live.

You don’t need to prep.
You don’t need to have momentum.
You don’t even need to be in a good place with your research.

You just need to be here.
We’ll name what’s already working — and count it.

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👇 Paid subscribers can join us at the link below
(It’s not too late to sign up — and you’ll also get immediate access to the previous recorded lives through the archive.)