For the past 20 years, I've worked alone at home. The lifestyle is great, but it can be really hard to work alone. It’s lonely. So how do we motivate ourselves to work? How do we find the energy to not only get started, but to keep going?

The main reason faculty were not signing up for my workshop was because of confirmation bias: “The fact that I am publishing confirms that I am a good writer, which means writing workshops are not for me.” But ask yourself this: Are you publishing in top-tier journals? Have you tried, but just can’t seem to make it? And have you considered that the problem may not simply be your research, but your writing?