Writing What I Like!

Create your writing goals with the SMART method. Learn how to set SMART writing goals and starting setting writing goals that are stated in a way that is specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. Dr. V walks you through her method of setting SMART writing goals. Grab your writing journal and pen and set your writing goal today!

This 90 Day Challenge introduces you to the practice of dating yourself! Date yourself in order to get to know yourself. By dating yourself, you actually bring out your creative genius, because you become more aware of what it takes to entertain yourself. Break boredom by coming up with creative ways to be with yourself. Join us for this group challenge.

Join the 90 Mindfulness Journaling Challenge! In this challenge, you will practice three pages of journaling daily for three months. You will discover in this practice a method for increasing mindfulness and creativity. Yes, increase self-awareness by opening up your creative pathways. Use writing as a mindfulness practice and a path to self-discovery, reducing anxiety, depression, and even loneliness.

In this episode, Dr. Venus Evans-Winters discusses knowing your audience. She also discusses how she approaches finding her voice in her writing. Knowing your audience requires you to engage in self-reflection and conversations with those most likely to respect your ideas and perspectives.

Get a sneak-peek into Dr. V's online coaching course, "Write Like A Scholar, Write for Impact"! In this episode, learn about your (mis)conceptions about who is a writer.

In this brief fieldnote, I guide you to your purpose! Well, not quite, but I do prompt you to consider how your life purpose can and should be connected to your writing; and how writing can lead you to envision your life purpose.

So, you cannot seem to find the time to write? In this fieldnote, Dr. Venus Evans-Winters answers the question of how does she find the time to write. She provides tips for making time to write.

The role of silence in Dr. V's writing rituals. Silence is golden! Silence (meditation) takes practice. This fieldnote caps of the 4 part series dedicated to mindfulness writing. Leave comments about your mindfulness practice!

Mindfulness for writers is an important practice that can help bring forth and acknowledge one's conscious and unconscious emotions. Mindfulness is a useful personal and professional tool for critical scholar.

Mindfulness for writers. What role can mindfulness play in creativity and scholarly writing? Dr. V provides some tips for becoming a mindful writer.

In this fieldnote, Dr. V discusses how to push pass fear and tell your truth to become a fearless writer!

Dr. V describes her motivation for writing, when she writes, and how to become a writer.

My reflections on the movie "The Hate You Give" and Black Girls' Trauma

Background history on my coming to understand education as a liberatory pursuit. I discuss my history of learning about education from liberation as a sociology major and my study of Septima P. Clark and citizenship education.

In this Fieldnote, Dr. V (me), discusses who she is as a scholar and identifies intellectual activists who have influenced her as a pedagogue and intellectual. Listen to think about who you are as a scholar and how education has influenced your identity.

This episode or "fieldnote" is the introduction episode to (W)riting What I Like! by Dr. Venus Evans-Winters.