Episode #138

Making the Shift from Academic Writing to Transformational Nonfiction

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About the episode

Shoutout to listener Irena for inspiring this week’s episode, all about the challenges of going from academic writing to transformational nonfiction. Mike and AJ discuss how to focus on the reader more and why the shift is so hard for those in academic writing. They give solutions on how academics can become more comfortable with writing for their readers.

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Show Highlights

“So a memoir is just a story, but it’s not necessarily directly speaking to a specific lesson. The lesson is in in the in the subtext.

—AJ Harper


“So I’m trying to distinguish in my mind, an academic is not necessarily transformational, but it’s educational. It’s knowledge.”

—Mike Michalowicz

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