[Writing Practice Series] The Real (More Awesome) Result Of Changing Your Writing Practice [RE-RELEASE EP 184]

I’ll explore the most powerful results of nurturing your writing practice, such as enhancing your self-trust, encouraging better decision-making, and establishing a work-life balance.

If you’re an academic, this episode will shed light on why so many professors struggle with writing and publishing, and how changing your writing practice can lead to a more fulfilling and joyful career. Tune in for insights into the real, lasting impact that focusing on your writing has on building the academic career and life you want.

Why Academics Struggle With Getting Publications Out

There are several obstacles to writing and publishing. Collecting data, starting a project, and conducting research is exciting but time-consuming. It can feel like doing the actual writing is the most daunting part. Additionally, academics tend to put publications on a pedestal because they can improve your career options. But you must write to publish, so your writing practice must be put on an equally high pedestal.

The Real Results of Changing Your Writing Practice

Learn More About Yourself – When you focus on your writing, you get a better understanding of how you write, how much time it takes, and the conditions you need to excel. The result is improved self-awareness, self-trust, and self-confidence.

Refined Decision-Making Process – As you pay more attention to your writing and writing practice, you will become more protective over your writing time. The result is that you make decisions that support you and your development instead of prioritizing and reacting to other people’s needs.

Better Lifestyle – You don’t have to be as resilient when your writing practice is resilient. Changing your approach to writing allows you to treat yourself more humanely. The result is stronger boundaries around your time and a sustainable work-life balance. 

“The focus on writing and writing practice is what is going to get you some really amazing upsides. Not just that you will publish, because obviously the more you write, the more you will submit, and the more you will publish. If you are doing professional development and thoughtfulness and intention around your writing and publishing then the result of more attention to writing practice and development of writing practice will be more publications. But there are even more amazing results to focusing on writing practice.”

“Writing needs rest. You need to recover from all the amazing thinking and brain work that you are doing as a professor in order to have a sustainable career and a sustainable writing practice. So you must figure out a way to make the writing fit into the workday or work week and to engineer or craft that same feeling of being unrushed or unpulled during the week.”

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.

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1. 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!
2. 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!
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