Academic Writing Amplified

You know you need to schedule time to write, but keeping those dates is the key to creating a successful writing habit. I’ll show you how.   We’ve probably all heard the writing advice to “make a date with your writing”, get it scheduled and on your calendar. This is great advice...as long as you keep those dates and actually get the writing done! If you consistently blow off your writing times, or find yourself filling them with other tasks, this episode is for you.    I’m helping you find ways to keep those writing dates, strengthen and flex your boundary-setting muscles, and build a writing habit that works.   Be Consistent In order to help yourself stay committed, be consistent. Be sure to put your writing times on your calendar for the same times every week. As always, I don’t recommend trying to write every day, but pick your once or twice a week and make it consistent.   “Go for consistency and start super small.”   Start Small To help yourself hold that time and use it for writing, make sure your consistently scheduled writing times are small (like one or two hours). It’s tempting to schedule big writing blocks, because we think we’ll get more done. I assure you, it’s so much easier to hold those times if they are small. Some other things to consider:   Put your consistently scheduled, small writing times towards the beginning of the week. It’s much harder to keep writing time sacred on a Friday when the week has gotten away from you. Try to put your times in the mornings so you can write before your day gets too busy. If it works, it’s best to schedule writing times during your soaring state times (those times of day when you’re most naturally focused and energized).    The Accountability Issue We hear a LOT about accountability these days. Many people I work with talk about needing accountability to keep their writing dates. But I ask you: do you need accountability to brush your teeth? To get dressed? No one holds you accountable for the basics, yet you get them done because you know their importance and you’ve made it a habit. Some other things to think about in terms of accountability:   The idea of requiring an outside influence to get your writing done devalues your writing, and your perception of your abilities. Building boundaries around your time is important for lots of reasons, so you must build and strengthen those boundary-setting muscles.  It’s basically someone telling you what to do, and we don’t need that in our lives my friends!   I do, however, support the idea of writing in community. Co-writing for shared focus and energy is a great idea! Just be sure you use that time to help you build your own habits, and not as an accountability crutch.   The big idea: making and keeping dates with your writing helps you put the proper amount of importance on your writing. The more you show up for yourself, the easier it becomes! Some Practical Help My Momentum program is a great tool for helping you train yourself to make and keep dates with your writing. We provide co-writing 6 times a week, Monday to Friday with coaches, and a continuously open Zoom link if you want to hop on with others at your own scheduled time.    We share goals and progress, and get to share the energy of other academic writers. We hold a Monday Mindset call to help get in the best frame of mind for the week.    Momentum is just $27/month, and you can cancel any time. If you need that little nudge to establish your writing habits, join in and try it out! Click here to get started. Pulled in a thousand directions and can’t seem to carve out time to write? Download my 10 Ways to Make Time to Write cheat sheet for ideas to implement today! Connect with me: Website Facebook Group Facebook Page This episode was first published at cathymazak.com/episode65.

I’m in the hot seat on this episode of The Academic Womxn Amplified! I’m sharing an interview of yours truly by Anna Clemens of Scientists Who Write. We cover everything from how (and why) to get writing done inside your work week to changing the patriarchal culture of academia to my coaching philosophy and program offerings.  Key points discussed: Writing as career currency and why academics should put it at the center of their careers Why I work with womxn and non-binary folx and systemic challenges in academia How I started my coaching business and my coaching philosophy What structural changes we should work toward in academia How to move away from fear-based decision making Driving change in a wider arena by focusing on individual career goals How to keep writing time inside your work week and the message you send yourself when you push it to the periphery Why waiting for big blocks of time to write doesn’t work Soaring states, co-writing and how to be more productive in less time The glorification of overwork and drilling down to what’s important My writing coaching and career direction programs for academics at every level   Key Quotes: “In the end, what has currency inside of academia is our published work.” “Change has to happen top down and bottom up simultaneously.” “If you’re waking up early, staying up late, or writing on the weekends, what you’re doing is you’re pushing writing to the periphery of your career.” “Is writing less important than the things you do from let’s say 9 to 5?” “I want people to start organizing their schedules around their writing blocks instead of trying to fit writing in.” “If you want to create, you have to rest.” “You can’t sustain the level of overwork that is currently being glorified inside of your institution.”   Pulled in a thousand directions and can’t seem to carve out time to write? Download my 10 Ways to Make Time to Write cheat sheet for ideas to implement today!   Connect with Anna Clemens: https://www.annaclemens.com/   Connect with me: Website Facebook Group Facebook Page This episode was first published at cathymazak.com/episode64.

What is “mid-career” for academics? How long does it last and where can you go from here? The answer to that last one may surprise you.   In North America, we have a 3-tiered promotion system. Your early career starts at Assistant Professor, you move to Associate Professor after you pass tenure review, and the final stage is Full Professor. (The UK system uses different terminology but is similar.) So what’s considered “mid-career” and why does it matter? How can you move forward after tenure and what does it take to make a push for the final step in the system? Let’s dig in.   Early Career: On a Mission The early career stage for academics lasts about 5-6 years. It’s the period where you’re starting to define your identity, and answering the question: who am I as an academic? It’s also the period when you are pursuing tenure. You may not have a crystal clear criteria for reaching tenure, but you have requirements, a pathway to follow and milestones to meet.    Mid-Career: What Now? Once you get tenure (or pass your permanency requirements in other systems), you are considered mid-career. This stage has a less defined time period and can last for as long as 20 years.There are some common experiences among academics as they reach this milestone:  Exhaustion and burnout from the tenure process. Reality is different from expectations. Pre-tenure academics often expect to have greater freedom to speak their minds, concentrate on their own projects and have a freer schedule; the truth of the post-tenure experience is that the difference is really not that stark. Motivation to go for full is deflated by the experience of getting tenure.   So, now what? How do you find the motivation to move on to full professor? And should you?   “Most women don’t make it to full. And so what we want is more women at full.”   Moving Forward: Your Ideal Career Moving up to full professor does come with some benefits, including prestige and higher salaries. There’s nothing wrong with staying at the mid-career, associate professor level. But what is a problem, is doing the same amount of work you would be doing at full, but getting paid at the associate level. To figure out the next best steps for you, here’s what to do:   Take time to reflect. Envision what you want your career to look like moving forward. What do you want your academic legacy to be? What does the next step to move toward that look like? It doesn’t have to be a promotion. Build your skills. What worked for you pre-tenure or at some other time in your career may not work for you now. If you want to make a move for promotion more enjoyable, you need to build up some skills like: Time management. Learn to delegate, outsource and lean on a support team, and get good at saying no. Project management. Have a plan to get projects you do accept done with precision. Writing management. Hone your systems and processes, and make sure your pipeline is running smoothly. Shift your mindset. Remember that you are not the container! What you want to put into the world through your work can be realized in many different contexts and places. Think broadly about what is best for your ideal career.   The big takeaway of the mid-career discussion is this: It can be better. You don’t have to put up with stress and overwhelm. You can create your ideal career through self-reflection and a little skill-building.    “The world is your oyster in the mid-career.”   If you need some help and support to understand what you want from your career and how to get to that next level, apply for my Elevate program! We focus on one-to-one work complemented by group work and trainings to help you shape your ideal career.   If you’re curious, apply here, even if you’re not sure yet. If you’re a good fit for the program, you’ll get an invite to a live, free training focused on issues that affect mid-career academics. At that point, you can choose whether you’ll join us when we start our 6 month journey in February. I hope you’ll join us...investing in yourself pays off! Pulled in a thousand directions and can’t seem to carve out time to write? Download my 10 Ways to Make Time to Write cheat sheet for ideas to implement today!   Connect with me: Website Facebook Group Facebook Page This episode was first published at cathymazak.com/episode63.

Don’t let the wide open schedules of a sabbatical or leave go to waste. Find out how to approach this time to get the most out of it!   It’s something we all dream about—a sabbatical or research leave when you can spend all your time writing. Then you’ll really be productive!   But ask anyone who has actually taken a sabbatical and you’ll soon discover that the big blocks of time that you’ve been craving can actually make you feel more guilty and less productive than you feel in a regular semester.    The solution is to get very clear on your priorities, plan and prepare well. Here are 3 things to do to get set up well and stay the course.   1. Clear the Decks You may be tempted to keep outside projects and responsibilities because you will have “so much time”, but this is a mistake! A sabbatical is meant to be a time to step back from regular duties to allow deep thinking on your chosen project. That is very hard to accomplish if one foot is still in the world of your day-to-day duties. Here’s what I recommend:   Get very clear on what your focus will be (what is in your proposal?) Remove yourself from every committee, project and commitment not related to your sabbatical project. Set up boundaries to protect your time, like out-of-office notifications on your email and phone. This won’t make all of those communications go away, but it will help change others’ expectations for your response time and availability. 2. Create Structure If you are thinking you can work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week on your project, let me assure you that is a complete misconception. If you try to do too much at once, it will backfire, and you’ll be sure to lose focus, energy, and productivity. But you do want to have a plan! Here is what I suggest for structure:   Plan to take one extra day off: 4 days of work, 3 days off. Choose whichever day of the week you want, but commit to it. It can be some extra time to rest and connect with family, and it can also be a place to schedule all that “life” stuff like Dr. visits so that it doesn’t derail your work days. It just doesn’t work to create well for 8 hours at a time. So, plan to work during soar sessions that are no more than 4 hours long. (Remember: soar sessions are times that you are in your own highly focused and energized soar state, or are writing in community to get that boost.) Rest. Plan it in and don’t neglect it! You are doing deep, critical thinking during this time to bring something new into the world. The create-restore cycle gets lopsided if you try to create for many more hours than you restore. Find something you find relaxing and restorative, and plan on doing it.   “You need to ramp up restoration if you’re expecting yourself to ramp up creation.” -Cathy Mazak   3. Stay on Course Remember, this sabbatical is for you. It’s a time to work on something important, that matters for you. So, enjoy it! Don’t feel bad about reveling in this time. Don’t let yourself be drawn off course. If something comes up that you have to deal with (a revise and resubmit that gets you to publication, for example), don’t let it derail you.    Consider using a sprint.  A writing spring is a two week period where you go all in on a project, using your soar sessions everyday for only that project. Use that sprint to get that other item off your plate as soon as possible. Whenever you can, approximate working on one thing at a time. This is good advice for any time, but especially during a sabbatical or leave. Most of that time it’s going to be your sabbatical project, but if something unavoidable comes up, turn to that for a short time if possible, then come back with focus.  For those new to the podcast, I’m giving an overview of our suite of programs  for academics at every point in their careers. Elevate: This program is for post tenure womxn who are looking for what’s next in shaping their careers. We are only running this program once this year, and enrollment is open now. Apply now, and if you’re accepted to the program, you’ll be ready to go for our February-July cohort. This program includes 1:1 mentoring, group coaching, trainings, and like-minded community and support. Apply here. (There is a special rate for participants in our Navigate program.)   Amplify: For pre-tenure who want to go up for tenure with confidence, this program offers 1:1 and group coaching, trainings, like-minded community and support. Amplify is full and closed for enrollment at this time, but our next cohort will open in Sept 2021, and you can get on the waiting list now. Apply here. (There is a special rate for participants in our Navigate program.)   Navigate: A writing roadmap for academics who want to use writing to create the careers they want. This program is for academics at any stage of their career who want to push back against overwhelm and make writing a priority. Navigate will open for enrollment in the first week of May 2021.    Momentum: Momentum is always open for enrollment for academics at any stage, from graduate student to post-tenure professor. We’ve expanded the program to include more scheduled co-writing sessions to support you in the new year. We also have a weekly 30 minute “momentum mindset” meeting to start your week off right.   Click here to learn more about our programs.   Pulled in a thousand directions and can’t seem to carve out time to write? Download my 10 Ways to Make Time to Write cheat sheet for ideas to implement today! Connect with me: Website Facebook Group Facebook Page This episode was first published at cathymazak.com/episode62.

It’s a fresh, new year and it’s time to leave all the “shoulds” in 2020 and plan to be more you in 2021.   Goodbye 2020! My hopes are high for 2021. I encourage you to make this the year that you stop focusing on what you think you “should” be doing to get your writing done and advance your career and start leaning in to what works for you. I assure you that you will get more done with deeper creativity if you accept the ways that work best for you and structure everything else accordingly.    Your voice, and your influence on your field will have greater impact if you lean in to what makes you and your perspective unique, and then stand by it. Let’s stop struggling to fit into someone else’s mold, and be ourselves in our writing and scholarship this year! Making Your Writing Systems More YOU I encourage you to reflect on what works well for you in terms of writing, and to run with it!   Find and utilize your soar states. What times of the day are you most energized, focused and creative? Use them for your writing! Structure other parts of your day around those times as much as you possibly can. Don’t worry about what times of day “should” be used for writing, find what works for you.   Break projects into tasks that are the right size. I advise my clients to break projects down into smaller tasks to make them more manageable, but when they ask how small to make each task, I don’t have a one-size-fits-all answer. If crossing things off a list is your jam, break those tasks down into lots of steps; if you get overwhelmed by a long list of items, make the tasks a little bigger so there are fewer of them. Try things and reflect on what feels good for you.   Set up rewards. Build rewards for yourself into your system. Decide when in the process is the best time to reward yourself, and be sure to pick rewards that bring you joy. Who cares what feels rewarding for someone else? Create rewards that work for you.   “How can I best manage myself?” -Cathy Mazak Making Your Scholarly Work More YOU Take time to reflect on what makes you, your work, and your perspective on your field unique. Articulate your opinion, make your voice known. Let the world know what you’re about! This makes you more citable, and helps you stay on mission. Full disclosure here...this will make some people mad. Putting your own spin on a topic or diverging from the “traditional” way of looking at things might make the old guard upset. Don’t let that deter you! Shrinking in confrontational situations doesn’t move your mission forward.   “Actually leaning in and making my view of things known [is] going to get me farther than trying to please everyone.” -Cathy Mazak   Friends, I’m so excited for this new year together, and for our new season on the podcast! I’ve got some great guests lined up and can’t wait to share more content with you. Remember to take time to reflect on what makes you unique, and what works best for you. This is your year! Let’s go.   “Figure out who you are, then go be that.” -Cathy Mazak Pulled in a thousand directions and can’t seem to carve out time to write? Download my 10 Ways to Make Time to Write cheat sheet for ideas to implement today! Connect with me: Website Facebook Group Facebook Page This episode was first published at cathymazak.com/episode61.

Have you ever considered writing a book? I’m sharing the inside scoop on the process for my own book project, from idea to submission.   I know many of you out there have entertained the idea of writing a book at one time or another. So I’m sharing my own experiences with the book process, from idea to proposal writing to submission. As of this writing, I am still in the process of submitting to different academic presses, so part 2 will come after I get a contract and start the next phase! For now, I’m sharing how I got to this point, including my fears, my process, and a few recommendations.  The Beginnings My project process started about 3 years ago with my idea for a writing guide for academics. I felt that through my business I had honed my message about writing and knew I wanted to put it into a book, but I had a lot of fear. I’ve written plenty of articles, and contributed to many edited volumes, but this would be my first monograph. Was I up to it?   “Can I really write a book? Do I have that many words in me?” -Cathy Mazak   I started to really develop and flesh out an idea during one of our own writing retreats, in 2019. I used the book “Thinking Like Your Editor” by Alfred Fortunato and Susan Rabiner to help me organize my thoughts. I highly recommend this book for helping to nail down your idea. In it, the authors pose these 5 questions:   What is this book about? What is this book’s thesis (or argument) and what’s new about it? Why are you the person to write this book? Why is now the time to publish this book? Who makes up the core audience for this book and why will they find it appealing?   Next, I had my assistant LaToya copy and paste all of my blog posts into Scrivener, and I dragged them into the categories for the table of contents I had come up with during the retreat. While I didn’t end up using the content this way, Scrivener did give me a word count, and some confidence: I had plenty of words to say.    Then, I did nothing on the project for a year.  Starting Again - With a Coach LaToya got me back into the project by finding me a book coach. If you can do it, I highly recommend getting a coach! My coach, Paula Diaco of Write Stories Now was an invaluable resource for helping me sort through what needed to be done.    Paula researched presses to submit to and helped me make the decision between academic, trade and independent publishers (we’re going with academic), sent me individual google docs to work on for each part of the book proposal, and kept me motivated with a weekly standing meeting. I can’t overstate how helpful she has been.   After getting the proposal going, I started writing out some sample chapters. Not only did I have plenty of words for a book, I realized I actually have content for 3 books!  Time to Write Next, I really wanted to familiarize myself with all the chapters of this book; to start getting them written out, or at least outlined, and make some progress on the book itself. I decided to make my own writing retreat. Here’s how I did it: I rented an AirBnB for 5 days. I called on my support systems to help (my husband stayed with my kids and kept things running). I bought enough groceries so I wouldn’t have to leave the condo at all. I used my soar states to write like crazy and get 6000 words down during my first few days! When I started to lose steam and writing started to feel like a slog, I stopped.   Yes, it cost some money and time to make this retreat happen. My book coach was also an investment. But it’s worth it! I know this book will sell. And it might be worth it for you too, maybe as a stepping stone to a new position, or a raise, or for the connections it will forge for you.    Don’t dismiss opportunities out of hand just because they cost money or take time; investing in yourself and your career is worth it.   “It’s worth it to invest in something like a book coach or a writing retreat… because of that currency the book has inside of academia.” -Cathy Mazak   Submission  The next step in the process was to start submitting! I narrowed down the top university presses I wanted to submit to, and Paula looked up the proposal requirements for each.  I’ve heard back from Princeton and the University of Chicago with the nicest rejection letters, saying they already had things in their catalogs that were too similar to accept my project.  I haven’t heard back from Harvard yet, and I’m still working on submitting to a couple of others.    At this point, I’ve paused my writing until I get a contract, so I can get feedback from the specific press I end up going with. I would say I am between 30% and 50% done with the writing.    I want to be transparent in this process, so let me say that I definitely had a freak-out moment, wondering if I should be submitting to academic presses at all. But I am back in my confidence, working through the process and ready to fill you in on Part 2 once the book sells!   If you are ready to start writing a book, I highly recommend Jane Jones at Up In Consulting for academic book coaching, and the book Thinking Like Your Editor to help you get traction with your idea. If you're looking for career development and writing support while you work on a book or other academic writing project, be sure to check out our Elevate and Amplify programs. Pulled in a thousand directions and can’t seem to carve out time to write? Download my 10 Ways to Make Time to Write cheat sheet for ideas to implement today! Connect with me: Website Facebook Group Facebook Page This episode was first published at cathymazak.com/episode60.

There are times, like at the end of a semester, when you might put your writing aside. How do you pick it back up again with the least amount of stress and the most creative potential?   Your workload ebbs and flows, and there are times (like the end of a semester) when you may put your writing aside; in fact, I recommend it. So how do you pick it back up again? If you’re thinking you’ll get all your grades in, finish your semester tasks, then jump right into it again, I’m asking you to reconsider! In order to build your creative potential back up and get back into writing in a way that will feel like soaring rather than slogging, you need to do a few things.   First Things First: Rest and Restore Don’t shake this one off. It’s vitally important, not just to your health, but to the quality of your writing. We all want to create more, write more, get more done and it might seem like the best way to do that is to spend more time, more energy, do more. Not so! A life coach of mine introduced me to the “create-restore cycle”. Put simply, if you want to create more, you have to rest more. These two factors need to be in balance in order for you to produce the best creations.    So, in order to be ready to pick that writing practice back up and produce your best work, you need to rest and restore. What you do will look different for each person. Sleep, go for walks, read a book, take a long bath; whatever fills your cup and gives you energy, do it! And not just a little bit, do as much of it as you can. Employ whatever support structures you have at your disposal to set up true rest for yourself.    “The secret key to create more is to spend more time restoring.” -Cathy Mazak Ease In Slowly After your restful break, when you’re ready to start writing again, don’t jump in to lengthy writing sessions. Ease yourself back in slowly. On the first day, simply open your document. Look it over, get reacquainted with your project, start getting your thoughts moving again on where you’ll go next. The second day, plan to write for maybe an hour, on the third day, a bit more and so on.  Make a Semester Plan Finally, make sure you put some time on your calendar to do some planning. Take a look at the semester coming up and see where things might be likely to get busy. Try to map out your writing times, include some writing sprints or a retreat if you can. Be prepared with a plan, and getting back into a writing practice (and keeping it going) will be so much easier.    “Embrace the ebb and flow of the semester.” -Cathy Mazak Pulled in a thousand directions and can’t seem to carve out time to write? Download my 10 Ways to Make Time to Write cheat sheet for ideas to implement today!   Connect with me: Website Facebook Group Facebook Page This episode was first published at cathymazak.com/episode59.

What actually “counts” as writing? When you give yourself credit for accomplishing your writing, do you only look at the number of words on a page? I say it’s more than that.   We spend a lot of time thinking “I should be writing,” as academia pulls us in a thousand directions. But we often forget all that writing really is. It is important to re-think what “counts” as writing. Acknowledging progress on a project helps us cultivate positive feelings about our writing, which propels us forward and keeps us coming back. But, the positive feelings don’t necessarily happen naturally. We need to deliberately create them.    It Starts with the Pipeline Try this exercise: Get out a piece of paper and start at the true beginning of your pipeline. Write down all the things that must happen between that moment when you first get your idea for the project and starting to write the first draft. Maybe you’ll need to have grant funding, maybe you’ll need to conduct specific research; whatever those pieces are, articulate them for you specific project list.   Now take a look at your list. All of this is writing. All of this counts.  Creating Purposeful Positivity If you can work to create feelings of excitement and flow about your writing, you will want to do it, and your writing practice will sustain itself. But this only happens by careful design.   “Writing does not respond well to self-doubt. It does not thrive in negativity. It dies under guilt and overwhelm.”   And you want to avoid writing sessions that drag, where you struggle to get words on the page and feel like you’re slogging through mud. Instead, you want to soar during your writing sessions, the words flowing, feeling focused and energetic. I call that your “soar state”. Here are some ways to set yourself up to soar: Think of the times when you have the most focus, when you don’t have to take breaks and can keep going. Take a few days and note these times in your calendar. Once you’ve identified them, your mission is to guard them as your writing times.   If you never feel focused and energetic (hello parents!), then just write first thing in the (working) morning. Don’t check email, jump on social media or even check your to-do list. Just write for one hour. Three times a week like this will go a long way in creating positive feelings about your writing.   Another way to create that soaring feeling is to write with someone. You can do this in person or virtually. Be sure to set ground rules: talk for ten minutes about what you’re working on, then be quiet and get writing. You will get energy by being with other people who are focused and writing.  In order to use our academic work to create the changes we want to see in our fields and in the world, we need to cultivate this positive relationship with writing. It is essential that writing feels good, and that we acknowledge forward movement towards our goals. People need to hear what you have to say, and creating a positive relationship with writing will help you to say it. If you’re ready to launch into 2021 with more soaring and less slogging, join Momentum , our $27/month membership program. Momentum is a co-writing community where we have coach-led writing times, community, and do mindset and goal-setting calls. All momentum members have access to client-only trainings and events throughout the year. There is no minimum timeframe, join for as many months as you like. Try it out today  and start creating more time to soar with your writing! To find out more about all of our programs, click here. Pulled in a thousand directions and can’t seem to carve out time to write? Download my 10 Ways to Make Time to Write cheat sheet for ideas to implement today! Connect with me: Website Facebook Group Facebook Page This episode was first published at cathymazak.com/episode58.

I am joined on this episode by my fabulous writing coaches, Rocío Caballero-Gill and Gina Robinson. We are talking all about the issues and stressors that are coming up the most in working with clients in our programs right now. What are you struggling with in your career? One thing we can guarantee is that you are not alone. From motivation to time management to boundaries to finding support, we are addressing all the top-of-mind issues from the fabulous womxn in our programs.    Issues discussed: Logistical questions like how do I find and manage time to be able to write? How to sustain writing through proper mindset, priority setting, and boundaries. Worrying about what isn’t being done, and how to find focus. Using structure and systems to create confidence and focus. Scarcity mindset and the fear of not using time ‘well enough’. Digging deeper into lack of motivation to find and deal with the underlying issues. The importance of community for support, energy, and momentum. Rest, and how to structure and set up breaks to reap maximum benefit. Asking for help from all different sources and the power this holds for womxn. Clarifying priorities to stay on mission. Decision fatigue and how to avoid it. How coaching, masterminds, community groups and programs are helping our clients. Key Quotes: “People think they don’t have enough time, but really what it is, is that they don’t know what they’re supposed to be doing.” -Gina Robinson “There is this fear...I’m not using the time well enough.” -Cathy Mazak “If you need a brain dump every single day, that is fine.” -Rocío Caballero-Gill “You just have to trust the system…” -Rocío Caballero-Gill “Women talking about what they need is very powerful.” -Cathy Mazak “Every time you have to make a decision, it costs you.” -Cathy Mazak “Resting makes you a better academic and a better human.” -Cathy Mazak   Pulled in a thousand directions and can’t seem to carve out time to write? Download my 10 Ways to Make Time to Write cheat sheet for ideas to implement today! Connect with me: Website Facebook Group Facebook Page This episode was first published at cathymazak.com/episode57.

This is a special bonus episode to tell you all about my re-imagined Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap course, the modules, the freebies, and the sign-up bonuses!   I’m giving you the lowdown on the awesome bonuses you’ll receive as one of the first 10 people to enroll when doors open on Black Friday. We’re talking about a bonus valued at $2000! And even if you don’t end being one of the first 10, the sooner you sign up, the bigger the bonuses. To get the jump on enrolling, get on the waitlist here  so you’ll be first to know when the doors open.   Listen in to the episode to hear all about the course, it’s modules, the extra freebies that come with your enrollment, and the juicy details on all the bonuses!   Don’t miss out on your chance to get into the Phoenix Cohort and get all the best bonuses. Get on the waitlist now!   Connect with me: Website Facebook Group Facebook Page