It was a long tine ago that I was in academia, but the advice that I would hibe an student today would be: use beeminder.com to set a bet to yourself to write 500 words daily... on anything... just the habit of writing is extremely important. Try to use the 5 paragraph esssay or the a logical tree exposition.

Use org-roam for a zettlekastem notes (that count to the 500 word limit)

And trying to use Literate programming (org-babel) to make your articles reproducible.

Use nixos in your personal computer so that you can control exactly what dependencies and libraries your papers need.