Micha Rahder

Feel free to reach out to me or @karendewartmcewen.bsky.social for more information!

Directed Draft

Join us for personalized support and a built-in writing community, designed and facilitated by two developmental editors and writing coaches. Check out directeddraft.wordpress.com for more info, including how to register.

Directed Draft

Looking for a little boost to help meet your scholarly writing goals this spring semester? We still have a few spaces available in our spring 2026 cohort of Directed Draft!

Directed Draft includes four weekly group writing sessions (M-Th), two of which are guided by me or @micharahder.bsky.social.

That means participants get access to on-the-spot feedback from an experienced developmental editor twice per week for the full eight weeks!

Combined with one-on-one coaching meetings that help you identify concrete strategies to tackle whatever challenges you most about writing, Directed Draft is designed to help you set—and meet—ambitious but achievable writing goals. 

Our next session starts in January, 2026. Register today!

When you encounter issues like this during a group writing session, we will meet you in a breakout room to quickly troubleshoot whatever is getting in your way, aiming to have you back to writing—with new momentum—in just a few minutes.

Getting sucked into a lit review rabbit hole, but not sure how to dig your way out? We can help! Feeling uncertain about the best way to frame your critique of other scholarship? We can help! Rewriting your intro over and over instead of digging into the body of your article? We can help!

@karendewartmcewen.bsky.social and I are developmental editors and writing coaches who specialize in tailored support for scholars at all stages of their careers. In our group sessions, we don't just tell you when to start and stop writing—we are available for on-the-spot writing support.

Directed Draft

What makes Directed Draft different from other writing groups?

directeddraft.wordpress.com

I run DD with another freelance editor/writing coach
, @karendewartmcewen.bsky.social. We are ready and able to support writers from #envhum, #envhist, anthropology, #sts, gender studies, interdisciplinary fields, and more!

Directed Draft

I'm excited to announce that Directed Draft is coming back in spring 2026! The program combines structured writing groups with one-on-one coaching for scholars in the humanities & social sciences. Build community and your draft at the same time!

Info and registration: directeddraft.wordpress.com

Check out these valuable offerings from the excellent @karendewartmcewen.bsky.social!

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Reminder: If you're in/around anthropology and want a warm, global Discord server for cowriting and coworking, please reach out!

Started by the incredible Dada Docot a few years ago, it's a great space where we pomodoro thru writing (and emails + course prep), but other writing activities welcome!

Just two weeks until our next cohort of Directed Draft begins! We have a couple of slots left for humanities and soc-sci scholars looking for a writing group with built-in editorial and writing coach support. #amediting #anthrosky #envhum #latinsky

Directed Draft

Attention humanities & social science scholarly writers!
@karendewartmcewen.bsky.social
and I are excited to announce the spring 2025 cohort of Directed Draft, a writing program that combines writing in community with one-on-one coaching.
For more info and registration: directeddraft.wordpress.com

Directed Draft

Attention scholarly writers! @karendewartmcewen.bsky.social and I are excited to announce Directed Draft, a supported writing group program for humanities and social sciences that includes one-on-one coaching sessions. Launching fall 2024!
For more info and registration: directeddraft.wordpress.com

Hey @juliegregorio.bsky.social — do you have a website or other form of contact I can direct people to?

Hey there freelance editors - I've got a great backup list for dev editing client referrals but need a few more names for copyeditors. Academic editing, humanities and social sciences. I have a request for a manu aimed at Enviro Hum that I can't take on right now, let me know if you're interested

It's been a few months in the making... & it's now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.org

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Breaking News: Americans will once again be able to receive free Covid tests by mail, U.S. officials said, ahead of a possible winter surge. nyti.ms/3POUsZy

See also: speaking only to one parent and ignoring other parent like they're not even in the room, even if they are the one holding the child and asking questions etc.

Book Proposal Development Grants

Book proposal development grants for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Scholars in the Humanities

press.princeton.edu/book-proposa...

CVS is now taking appointments for updated COVID boosters! You can schedule your shot starting Monday, September 18.

Please please please get your booster, and tell your loved ones too!

JOIN THE TEAM Join CCP's growing team of researchers and advocates.

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 The Climate and Community Project is hiring a short-term communications contractor to help disseminate research products lined up for publication in the next few months. www.climateandcommunity.org/join-the-team

I sometimes move things from Word into Scrivener to do major dev edit structural work! Then it goes back into Word for cleanup.

The Uni presses are finding their way...
@dukepress.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social, @uminnpress.bsky.social, @ucpress.bsky.social and probably others!

Image of NYT headline: "Tourists Were Told to Avoid Maui. Many Workers Want Them Back." Article excerpt reads: A plunge in tourism after a disastrous fire has already crippled the economy in Maui. Now, some locals who wanted visitors to stay away are urging them back.

The NYT "poor real estate owners and their sad empty office buildings" is making the rounds today, but don't sleep on this Kanaka-silencing claim that Maui "locals" want their tourism back after the fires. Sure, more extraction, colonialism, and more long-distance carbon-emitting flights will help 🙄

the best kind of research assistant!

Any rule about how you are "supposed to" read anything is a lie! An exclusionary and often ableist one! Read it once or a million times. Skim it or spend hours on every page. Visual or audio. Read however brings you pleasure, however works best for the meeting of the book and your brain.