Building a Writing Practice
that Works for You

An 8-week online workshop & writing accountability group
to help you build a sustainable writing practice and
bring your article or book chapter to completion.

Workshop Runs September 22–November 14, 2025

Tiered Pricing for Workshop (Click on Link for Full Details)

If you register by July 31st, the workshop fee is $260 with institutional funding
and $180 without institutional funding.

As an academic, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed as you try to make progress on your writing while juggling all the other demands on your time.

This workshop provides concrete strategies and support for building a writing practice that helps you make consistent progress on your projects while avoiding burnout.

The workshop offers 8 thoughtful video lessons (20–30 min in length) on the topics below, a workbook with optional exercises designed to help you make the most of the lessons, weekly group calls over Zoom, and a discussion thread for posting about goals and progress and cheering each other on (on Teachable, the online platform for the workshop).

  • The 75-minute weekly group calls always include a short “support and accountability check-in” period at the start, and then alternate between cowriting sessions and group coaching sessions on the topics addressed in the videos. The group coaching calls incorporate short writing prompts and mini-presentations from me (that bring in some additional ideas on the topics in question), and they foster a space for supportive discussion and sharing among participants.

  • The video lessons draw ideas from a wide array of books and other sources. Michelle Boyd’s insightful book Becoming the Writer You Already Are will also provide an important piece of our curriculum in weeks 2 and 7.

  • Enrollment will be capped at 8 participants.

The weekly group calls are tentatively scheduled for Fridays from 10:45–12:00 Eastern/9:45–11:00 Central/8:45–10:00 Mountain/7:45–9:00 Pacific. I will list a few other time options on the registration form. You won’t be invoiced for the workshop until we’ve set a definite time for the workshop (so that you can be sure the time will work for you). I’ll set a definite time after 4 people have registered and indicated their time preferences.

BONUS: I will also be offering an additional weekly cowriting session (probably on Wednesdays from 10:30–12:30 Eastern) that is open to everyone in this workshop and also to alumni of my past workshops.

We’ll dig into the following topics:

WEEK 1: Finding a Calm Focus & Bringing Pleasure into Your Writing Process

  • Kickoff meeting! Intros and goal-setting for the 8-week period, followed by a cowriting session.

WEEK 2: Managing Perfectionism, Your Inner Critic, & Your Urge to Procrastinate

  • Group coaching session on bringing pleasure into the writing process and handling your inner critic. Check-in at the start so that people can share goals for the coming week and talk about how things went the previous week. (Reading for the week: chapter 2, “More Than You Think: How Head, Hand, and Heart Make Writing So Hard” from Michelle Boyd’s book Becoming the Writer You Already Are.)

WEEK 3: Planning Your Semester & Setting Achievable Goals

  • Cowriting session. Check-in at the start so that people can share goals for the coming week and talk about how things went the previous week.

WEEK 4: Planning Your Week & Building in Ways to Stay Motivated

  • Group coaching session on setting goals that are realistic, motivating, and flexible and on finding a level of structure for your day or week that feels supportive but not overly restrictive. Check-in at the start so that people can share goals for the coming week and talk about how things went the previous week.

WEEK 5: Protecting Your Time for Writing & Self-Care

  • Cowriting session. Check-in at the start so that people can share goals for the coming week and talk about how things went the previous week.

WEEK 6: Protecting Your Focus

  • Group coaching session on protecting your time and protecting your focus. Check-in at the start so that people can share goals for the coming week and talk about how things went the previous week.

WEEK 7: Getting Unstuck at Various Stages of the Writing Process

  • Cowriting session. Check-in at the start so that people can share goals for the coming week and talk about how things went the previous week. (Readings for the week: chapter 3, “Turning Toward Yourself: How Writing Process Can Get You Unstuck,'“ and chapter 5, “Growing from the Inside Out: Exploring and Expanding Your Writing Process,” from Michelle Boyd’s book Becoming the Writer You Already Are.)

WEEK 8: Asking for the Help You Need at Various Stages of the Writing Process

  • Group coaching session on finding ways to move forward at various stages of the writing process. Check-in at the start so that people can share goals for the coming week and talk about how things went the previous week.

If you don’t have time to watch the videos before the live calls, that’s fine! You’ll continue to have access to the videos after the workshop ends.