Getting out of your own way

On advice for writers

Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash.

I wasn’t really aware of the world of writing advice until I started my PhD in the early 2000s. I’d always been a “good” writer, and while I had some teachers who pushed me to improve, I mostly slid on by with positive feedback and very little in the way of direct guidance. That is, until I met my PhD supervisor. She w…