Don’t just sit down to write any old thing at any old time. Pick a particular moment to do a specific thing. This will not only help you to do it well; it will make you better at it as you do it.

Writing Process Reengineering therefore organizes your writing process into discrete “writing moments”. They normally last twenty-seven minutes and are followed by a three-minute break. Each writing moment produces a single prose paragraph of at least 6 sentences and at most 200 words. A formal writing moment is always planned the day before, specifying when, where and what will be written. Once planned, it should be respected as one would respect a planned meeting or class.

The task can be specified quite precisely. The key sentence tells you what you want to say and I recommend you choose something you knew already last week, not something you just learned today. Pick something you know comfortably. You can then decide what difficulty it poses for your reader, i.e., whether you need to support, elaborate or defend it. You should be clear about what part of the paper you are writing on: whether you are writing background, theory, method, analysis or discussion, or whether you are working on the introduction or the conclusion. You might decide, for example, to elaborate on “Sensemaking is generally taken to be a retrospective process” in your theory, or “The internet has changed how businesses communicate with their customers” in your bac