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Excerpt 3 from Si Wenquan Yong: How to Overcome Academic Writing Procrastination —— On Writing Goals and Motivation Tools
1. Setting the right goals can help you become an efficient writer.

2. List your goals one by one-these goals are specific writing tasks to be completed. For example, revise and resubmit a paper, start writing a new article, accept an invitation to write a chapter for an anthology, pick up half the paper you wrote last year, write a project funding application report, or write a book.

If you clearly list what you want to write, there is indeed a lot to write, so don't worry that you will have nothing to write and no work to do. As a matter of fact, I often write the serious things mentioned above for several days in a row, so I can't help but want to write some short stories about my parents. Complain about the new tenant. It's true, mom. She's always bothering me with junk and getting back at her rent. I won't rent it to her next year Looking back on the past bullying, I want to return him with interest; Write some scenes that have been difficult to say for many years, but have been embarrassed countless times in my heart, and so on. I find that I am more interested in writing these messy things than writing serious academic writing, and I can say that I am never tired of it.

What shall we do? We spend one day writing serious things and four days writing indecent things every week.

3. Make the goals you want to write every day as specific as possible. When you really sit down and fight for your goal, you need to turn it into a small goal.

4. Write all kinds of essays. This can help you get rid of the main writing tasks for a while, fiddle with these gadgets and get a moment of peace and fun.

You can use your writing time to do something beneficial to your career development. Set aside some fixed time for yourself every week. You can use them to read some books about writing and teaching.

Don't forget to reward yourself when you finish a writing task. Self-reinforcement and random management have been proved to be very helpful in cultivating good habits. Immediate self-reward can help you stay interested.

7. A struggling writer can write a lot as long as he keeps writing according to the plan-it's as simple as that. On the contrary, those who have to wait for inspiration can hardly write anything. Put down the collection of poems you are fiddling with and get back to writing your journal papers.

Reflecting on one's work, besides attending classes, is actually all kinds of writing. Write project application, write papers, revise papers, and write books. Writing is your job. But it was only in these two years that I consciously learned to write, and I wrote at a fixed time. The focus of writing has gradually shifted from essays to academic writing, as if my work only started in recent years and I have been working for nearly 20 years.