In honor of Raul Pacheco-Vega passing, you should go read everything he's posted. It's full of good advice on how to be an academic and writing strategies.
Nicolas Holzschuch
If you are curious about how I arrived to this unofficial "writing/research design/research methods & techniques guru" situation, I basically did what Tulley did in her book: I asked my former professors at UBC (and other universities): "what are your writing strategies? TEACH ME EVERYTHING".