248: [Writing Practice Series] How Long Does It Take To Change Your Writing Practice? [RE-RELEASE EP 189]
Dec 17, 2024
Discover how long it takes to transform your academic writing habits. The journey involves consistent effort, typically 12 to 18 months, as professionals navigate challenges. Self-awareness is crucial, with benchmark assessments guiding improvement. Intentional actions play a vital role in evolving writing practices. Join the discussion on how supportive programs can accelerate change and help clear publication backlogs. This episode is a treasure trove for anyone eager to enhance their writing routine and achieve their academic goals.
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Writing Practice Evolves Over Time
Writing practice evolves over decades starting from childhood creativity to academic professionalism.
Expecting quick changes neglects the complex lifelong development of writing habits.
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Writing Practice Needs Long Commitment
Changing a writing practice requires 12 to 18 months of intentional action.
Quick fixes or short programs alone cannot produce lasting changes in scholarly writing habits.
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Graduate Writing Is Reactive Then Self-Made
Graduate school writing is typically reactive to assignments and deadlines.
Dissertation writing often involves creating one’s own writing practice without much structure.
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From the moment you first picked up a crayon, pencil, or pen, you started building your experience as an academic writer. Your writing practice has evolved and adapted as you've progressed through different stages of life and career.
In today’s episode, I dive into how long it really takes to transform your writing practice as an academic. I explore how your approach to writing shifts throughout your career and share my timeline for building a more sustainable writing routine that supports consistent writing and increases your publications. I also highlight the tools and skills you can develop in our Navigate program, showing the impact it will have on your writing practice and career forever.
If you are ready to put writing at the center of your career or need help clearing your publication pipeline and know that improving your writing practice is an essential step in that process, this episode is for you. Tune in to learn how long it takes to change your academic writing habits and how Navigate can help you build a writing practice that supports your long-term success.
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!
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