A 12 month academic coaching programme that installs consistent academic writing - bespoke to you.
WRITING IS THE SUCCESS ENGINE OF YOUR ACADEMIC CAREER.
But 90% of the 800+ academics I've mentored – whether productive or not – do not have a reliable system for sustaining it.
Some are stuck. Others are writing, but inconsistently. In both cases, writing depends on effort rather than infrastructure. Projects start and stall. Drafts take longer than they should.
Writing disappears during busy teaching periods. The problem is not time or ideas.
It is execution.
THE ACADEMIC WRITER’S COLLECTIVE
Installs a professional writing system that you can rely on at any stage of your career, by building the processes, habits and drafting practices that make writing consistent and high quality.
• Monthly Live Coaching
• Live co-writing
• Targeted feedback
• A complete training framework.
You don't just learn about writing.
You build the infrastructure that produces it.
YOU WERE NEVER TRAINED TO WRITE AS AN ACADEMIC
If you’re like most academics, you tell yourself the same thing over and over again:
• “Once this admin role ends, I’ll get back to my writing.”
•“When summer comes, I’ll finally focus on my research.”
• “As soon as I finish this urgent task, I’ll have time to write.”
You sit down to write… but nothing happens. You plan to work on your paper… but something more urgent always gets in the way
Or when you do finally write, it is full of stress, deadlines and bad energy.
Every month you delay, you risk:
• Watching your colleagues publish while your pipeline dries up
• Falling behind in your field and missing out on career opportunities
• Feeling guilty every time you “should” be writing—but aren’t
• Letting self-doubt creep in, making writing feel even harder
You know publishing is key to your career, but you just can’t make it happen consistently, joyfully and without deadline drama. Sound familiar?
THE SOLUTION?
The Academic Writer's Collective is not a course – it is a structured training programme with implementation built in.
You'll install:
• A stable writing habit (with my feedback)
• A visible publication pipeline (with my feedback)
• Workload management strategies that protect writing (with my feedback)
• Efficient drafting systems
• Higher quality writing through better editing
Writing becomes predictable, not stressful. A writing system personalised to you.
It gives you the structure, strategy, and accountability to write with efficiency, confidence, and consistency–without the burnout.
Your ideas deserve to be published. Your career deserves momentum. And you deserve to write with confidence and ease.
WHAT "COLLECTIVE" ACTUALLY MEANS
Most academics hear "Collective" and assume group learning. This is not that.
You are not being taught in a generic cohort or asked to study writing.
The training is built for you, and is applied to your work, your projects and your pipeline - with direct feedback from me on your writing practice.
The Collective refers to one thing: six guided writing sprints per month with me supporting your writing execution.
These sessions protect your writing time and dramatically increase your writing output. You write alongside other serious academics - but your work remains private and your own.
You are building your individual writing system, you're just not doing all your writing in isolation (because research shows that is bad!).
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.
*Please note: this programme can only be joined through my learning portal, and is not in my online shop on this website. Click the button above to get more information.
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. ”
“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.”