196: The Kind Of Binging That Is Good For Your Writing
Nov 28, 2023
Explore the cycle of intense writing in academia and the importance of taking breaks. Learn strategies to maintain consistency and build a positive relationship with writing. Discover the benefits of early enrollment in the Navigate program and how it can help break the binge and bust cycle in writing.
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Binge and Bust Cycle Realized
Many academics experience a binge and bust writing cycle, alternating intense writing periods with dry spells.
This cycle often leads to burnout and is unsustainable for consistent publishing success.
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Embrace Semester's Writing Flow
Accept the natural ebb and flow of the academic semester in your writing practice.
Use specific tools to restart writing after breaks to maintain consistency.
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Choose Consistency Over Daily Writing
Prioritize consistent writing over writing every day.
Develop tools to regain consistency after interruptions rather than fearing failure.
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Academics come to Scholar’s Voice™ and the Navigate program seeking a solution to escape a binge-and-bust writing cycle, redefine their academic mission statement, and clear out their publication pipeline. Writing every day or in long panicked stretches is not sustainable and makes consistent publications impossible.
But today, I want to share how binging can help your writing practice! Scholar’s Voice™ offers an exclusive bonus on the Navigate program each year. In 2023, we are introducing the Holiday Binge Bonus! Pre-enroll for Navigate and get access to all of the program content in advance. Use free time over the holiday break to learn how to map out a publication pipeline, prioritize your mission statement, and build a sustainable relationship-based writing practice. Are you ready to change how you write? Listen to learn how to take advantage of this one-time-only Navigate bonus!
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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