"Our goal as academic writers is not to make the writing feel comfortable. It’s to make the discomfort feel less catastrophic. " https://patthomson.net/2026/03/08/getting-comfortable-with-being-uncomfortable/
getting comfortable with being uncomfortable 

Good academic writing means sitting with a discomfort that never entirely goes away. It’s not a discomfort that comes from having nothing to say. Most of us have more than enough ideas crowding the…

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