Publishing Your Backlog Of Papers [Masterclass Replay]

My master class on publishing your backlog of papers addresses the critical mindset shift you need to make to free up your pipeline. I also discuss the top three mistakes academics make when publishing papers and offer corrective strategies. Finally, I introduce the Navigate Program and explain how this professional development program helps academics create sustainable writing practices and a flowing publication pipeline.

If you struggle with time or project management, this episode is for you! Learn how to get more papers published and foster a mindset of abundance.  

The Mindset Shift Holding Your Back 

The primary mindset shift you need to make to publish your backlog of papers is to stop blaming yourself. Blame shows up in these three ways:

• Shiny Object Syndrome: You have a lot of things partially done, and when you get an idea for a new project, your focus jumps to that.
• You Say Yes Too Much: You think you need to say ‘No’ more to cut down the backlog of papers.
• Motivation Problem: You blame procrastination or lack of attention/interest for your backlog of papers.

But the problem isn’t you! It is the racist, patriarchal culture that academia fosters and models, causing your backlog of papers. You must shift your mindset by taking the blame off yourself to publish more.

3 Mistakes Academics Make When Publishing Papers (How to Fix Them)

Mistake #1: You think you just need time to get to the backlog of papers.

Strategy: Learn project and time management skills and implement them through consistent practices so you can maintain boundaries around your time. You need a sustainable writing practice to stop and start without shame or guilt. More time won’t solve the problem if you can’t use that time effectively.

Mistake #2: You blame collaborators and students for slowing down your pipeline.

Strategy: Master your writing project management skills so that you can be a leader when you write with others. Develop your own systems and practices so that you can control everything in a collaboration. 

Mistake #3: You’ll have time in the future to get to your writing.

Strategy: You become the designer of your career. Getting tenure does not automatically improve your writing practice or fix project management skills. You must own your agency and stop reacting to other people’s problems.

How to Apply for Navigate 

Navigate helps you design your career to align with your academic mission statement by developing project management and writing skills that lead to you shifting your mindset and stop reacting out of fear. Navigate covers three areas of your career and writing so you can tackle your backlog of papers and open your publication pipeline. Get on the waitlist to be the first one to know when we open for applications! 

“You aren’t publishing your backlog of papers because you think you are flawed and that there is something wrong with you.”

“You have the agency to make your writing and publishing better now. You do not have to wait for something else to happen.”

We’ve opened the waitlist for our next cohort of Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap®. Check out the program details and get on the waitlist here.

Continue the conversation:

• • Our 12-week Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap® program helps tenure-track womxn and nonbinary professors to publish their backlog of papers so that their voice can have the impact they know is possible. Get on the waitlist here!
• • Cathy’s book, Making Time to Write: How to Resist the Patriarchy and Take Control of Your Academic Career Through Writing is available in print! Learn how to build your career around your writing practice while shattering the myths of writing every day, accountability, and motivation, doing mindset work that’s going to reshape your writing, and changing academic culture one womxn and nonbinary professor at a time. Get your print copy today or order it for a friend here!
• • Want to train with us for free on your campus? Now you can when you recommend our Scholar’s Voice™ Faculty Retreats to a decision-maker on your campus! Download the brochure with the retreat curriculum and both in-person and online retreat options here.
• • If you would like to hear more from Cathy for free, please subscribe to the weekly newsletter, In the Pipeline, at scholarsvoice.org. It’s a newsletter that she personally writes that goes out once a week with writing and publication tips, strategies, inspiration, book reviews and more.

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