What are you doing for the rest of the year? I know, I know. What a question! If you’re like most academics, you have no idea. Whether you’ll be teaching face to face or online is to be determined (no matter what your institution is saying right now). You don’t know if your kids will
Have you ever considered working with an editor and then talked yourself out of it? Perhaps you said something to yourself like, “I don’t need one more person to tell me what’s wrong with this article,” or “I’ll get all the comments I need during the revise and resubmit process.” In both instances, you may
Eight months ago I launched my signature coaching service, The Productivity Pipeline. I started the service in response to a problem many of my clients faced. Now, I’m relaunching the service, to so speak. Although anyone can sign up at any time of the year, the beginning of the semester is a great time to
There’s a lot of productivity advice out there, even on this blog. Much of it focuses on thinking about different ways to “manage” or “maximize” your time – to do as much as you can with limited resources. Productivity is, of course, a type of production, and as such being productive means having greater output.
A revise and resubmit is no joke. It may be the piece of writing that begets the most procrastination and anxiety. I think this is because you are not writing just for yourself and an imagined audience, but rather for a real audience of readers who just offered you a critique that was at times
I am currently working with multiple clients through my service The Productivity Pipeline. In this post, I am going to give you concrete examples of what that coaching work looks like, what my clients are learning, and the benefits they have received. My work with my clients is confidential. Therefore, this description is not
The harsh truth about academia is that once you finish graduate school, there is really no formalized system of professional development. You can seek out support from individual mentors, and you may be lucky enough to land at an institution that offers a pro-seminar of some sorts for incoming faculty. There might even be some
Productivity coaching is a type of one-on-one work with writers to develop systems of accountability in writing. I work with you to set realistic writing goals and give you the tools to achieve those goals. When we work together, your writing will become routine rather than haphazard and inconsistent. Your writing sessions will be more rewarding
When you sit down to make a writing schedule, it’s natural to feel some resistance towards developing a plan and ultimately, a system that will get you started writing and keep you writing. Generally, there are five objections that writers express – none of which are mutually exclusive. These myths about creating a writing schedule
In my time working as an academic editor, I’ve noticed a pattern. Clients repeatedly submit their work to me well after our mutually agreed upon deadline. Or, they contact me for an initial consultation with only days to spare before they have to submit their writing for publication. As a result, they incur rush fees,
A Peek into the Process My work as a writing consultant is different from the work I do as an editor. When clients need writing consultation, it is usually because they are in the early stages of writing, and they would not be served well by copyediting or even substantive editing. They need an
Developmental editing or consulting is a process where I work with you to bring a project from its initial unfinished state to a fully articulated manuscript. I help you to hone in on what needs to be done, then I supply you with the tools to do it. This can include mapping out a plan