Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
— Stephen King

The foundational writing habit training that every academic needs

You’re a committed academic with big ideas, valuable research, and serious ambition. But somehow, you still can’t write consistently. And when you do manage to write, it’s slow, painful, and sometimes the quality isn’t what you want.

You keep thinking the answer is more time. The summer. A sabbatical. A grant. The end of a committee role. But the truth is: time alone won’t fix this.

Is this how you’re feeling?

🎯 You’re frustrated by how slow writing feels and you blame your lack of time — but even when you do have time, the writing doesn’t flow
🎯 You're ambitious to get your ideas out, and finish projects quickly so you can move forward in your career
🎯 Sometimes you feel a niggle of  imposter syndrome, and you wonder how others publish so easily while you’re stuck — even when your ideas are just as strong
🎯You’re starting to question how you will ever get the kind of time and space you need to write — you’ve worked so hard, but you’re not getting the traction you deserve
🎯 You feel overwhelmed and out of control — unable to trust yourself to write, hold boundaries, or make real progress

...it's time to change all that.

Waiting for time is what’s keeping you stuck. And every day that passes, your writing habit weakens — and your confidence, clarity, and career capital erode with it.

The Solution

A rock slid writing habit that consistently delivers quality.  ✨ The Academic Writing Accelerator  ✨ is the only programme that gives you my 6 tools of writing so you can escape the writing prison. I help you to understand your blocks and barriers, and how to implement my 6 tools of writing in your real life. You build a bespoke week to week writing blueprint, that tells you what to do and when to do it. You can build a sustainable writing habit that delivers real results.

This is the OG Writing Habit Course, foundational to everything you do as an academic. When you don't write regularly, you don't write like a professional.

Inside the Academic Writing  Accelerator Programme you will follow my 3 Step Accelerator  Framework  to finally conquer your writing demons

Step 1: Diagnostics
🔓 Diagnose your real writing blocks — so you can stop blaming time and start solving the true problem

Step 2: Bust the Barriers
📈 Develop a rock-solid, repeatable writing routine — one that works inside your current workload

Step 3 - The 6 Tools of Writing

🛠️ Use the 6 essential tools for writing excellence — so your outputs are better, faster, and more joyful

This is the EXACT writing system that saved me from a dysfunctional relationship with my writing and enabled me to write regularly in my paid working hours. No more working evenings and weekends, yet still producing lots of quality outputs. I still implement these principles today.

What you really need is:

✅ A writing habit so solid it happens automatically — not in panicked sprints or guilt-fuelled marathons
 ✅ A sense of control over your time, energy, and ideas — so you can focus on the work that lights you up
✅ To meet employer metrics without sacrificing your health or your joy
✅ Career growth, job security, and professional recognition — because your outputs speak for themselves
✅ Opportunities to collaborate, lead, and publish with confidence — so your research can reach the people it’s meant to

If you're tired of the constant stress and anxiety over when you are going to get your academic writing done, and feel overwhelmed with all the competing demands on your time...



By the end of the Accelerator you will

✨Write regularly — even during teaching and admin chaos 
✨ Feel in control of your schedule, your energy, and your progress 
✨ Know exactly how to tackle writing resistance, doubt, and delay 
✨ Publish with more ease and quality — building career capital as you go 
✨ Trust yourself again as a scholar, a thinker, and a writer 

*Please note: the course is not in my online shop on this website, but in the learning platform where you are redirected by clicking the above button.

Where does the writing course fit in our programme?

This course is the starting point on your writing coaching journey. It is for people who struggle to turn up and do their writing on a regular schedule. Once you have this skillset, then it is onto the Writer’s Collective.

NB: It may be possible for you to access University support funds to pay for this professional development course, so do enquire in your department if you can finance this course through your workplace.


Testimonials

Academic Coach has transformed my writing practices. The Academic Coach Writing Accelerator Course draws on a range of literature to provide tools and techniques you can use to refine each element of the writing process. The daily emails both support the writing process and serve as a reminder to put writing on the top of my list. The effective, efficient academic writing process brought to me by the Academic Coach has released time to enjoy life without sacrificing productivity.
— Dr Rachel Cahill O'Callaghan, UK Russell Group University
Melanie has designed a no-nonsense, well rounded academic writing course which will appeal to any academic who needs a boost and very practical suggestions on how to carve out time for writing when faced with many teaching, administrative and management demands. The course builds on state of the art research in academic writing across the globe, but is also grounded in Melanie’s many years of personal and professional experience as an academic in UK institutions. In particular, I enjoyed learning about the emotional investment we have in writing, the way to deal with the ‘stories we tell ourselves ‘ that keep us from writing. The emphasis is on making writing a daily routine, however little time we might allocate, and foremost becoming a ‘happier’ rather than merely a more ‘productive’ writer. The daily mini-talks and interactive web-lectures provide a sense of routine that keeps one sticking to their project.
— Chia Longman, Associate Professor, Ghent University