Less is More: How to Scale Back Our Manuscript Goals & Still Do Good Work

We know we can’t meet that deadline. And yet, we commit to it anyway. Hoping that somehow, we’ll find a way. Or worse, already knowing that we’ll binge writing our way through, even though it will take weeks to recover. This workshop offers an alternative approach. It explains why it’s so hard to scale back our vision for a manuscript and teaches a straightforward way to do so anyway, while still retaining the quality of the work. Bring a manuscript with a deadline, and you’ll learn to identify which goals can be eliminated, which must be met and how to become comfortable with your choices. By the end of the workshop, each participant will have a set of manageable writing goals and be able to confidently reduce the scope of work on any manuscript submission.

This is an in-person event sponsored by the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy.

Registration is limited to the UIC community.