Writing It!

Episode 17: Writing while Parenting

February 12th, 2024  |  53 mins 50 secs

caregiving, covid trauma, creating writing communities, non-traditional academic careers, scheduling, time-blocking, writing groups

You don’t have to be a parent to get something out of our conversation with Professor Laura Yares about “Writing While Parenting.” In this conversation, we speak about how to get writing done while caretaking; how to best take advantage of limited time to write; writing when the family stakes are high; time-blocking; lingering Covid trauma; finding and building an academic writing community; letting our writing lie fallow; dealing with the loneliness of parenting within academia; leaning in to the creative parts of our academic jobs; and the importance of modeling good “professor-ing with a family” boundaries.