Develop Productive Writing Habits
A Unique and Effective Online Program for Professors and Graduate Students
Finally, Complete your Dissertation, Journal, Article, Book, or Grant Proposal!
The Academic Writing Club is an innovative combination of accountability tools and productivity coaching designed to jumpstart your writing. Within our supportive online community of experts and colleagues, you’ll develop practical writing strategies, take charge of your progress, and achieve your highest level of productivity.

This writing group has qualitatively changed the way I work & write. The results should show themselves in my pub record by the end of this year.
Assistant Professor
The Writing Club is based on research by Robert Boice and other experts in the field of writing productivity and psychology. We teach you to write in short, productive sessions that maximize your output and minimizes mental exhaustion. But we don’t just teach you how, we guide you through it. We’ll be right there with you as you learn to develop and maintain ideal writing habits.
End Loneliness, Confusion,
and Lack of Support
Work on the Process of Writing with Your Small Group and Coach
Writing with the support of a coach and a small group of peers makes a huge difference! As a member of the Academic Writing Club, you’ll hold yourself accountable to the coach and online group by logging in daily and reporting on your struggles and accomplishments. They will read and respond directly to what you’ve logged for that day. Don’t worry – you won’t be sharing your work; you’ll be sharing your experiences with the process of writing productively.
I can’t thank you enough for this marvelous resource and support. I never expected so much from the writing club; this really was an extremely valuable investment. I do feel like I’ve changed, and it’s really enhanced my productivity.
ABD Doctoral Candidate

Although many Club members choose an anonymous online “nickname,” these groups are incredibly successful in developing a community of encouragement, support, accountability and closeness. This kind of environment helps you generate and sustain momentum. Knowing that other writers experience the same feelings as you is priceless. It helps you overcome your own isolation, confusion, and self-blame. That’s our goal – for you to feel good about yourself as an academic, freeing you up to accomplish your goals.
Access Powerful Online Writing Tools
Proprietary Online Tools and Phone Classes, Coaching Groups,
and Discussions Give you the Structure you Need to Succeed
Daily Progress Page
The Progress Page is central to the Academic Writing Club’s power. It helps you build and maintain a daily writing habit by providing progress tracking, accountability, and structure. Each green check mark represents a member of your group logging in and reporting on their daily writing progress or problems.

Daily Coaching Questions
Answering a few simple, but powerful questions about your writing process each day will help you achieve the clarity of purpose you need to overcome any writing blocks.

Coach and Peer Support
We really want to know how you’re doing! Our goal is to encourage you to persevere and succeed, no matter how much you’re struggling. Your coach and fellow small group members will read your responses and will comment and encourage you. It helps to know that someone cares, that you’re not alone, and that you’re part of a community.

Graphs
Automatically generated graphs let you monitor your writing progress, and the progress of your group. Remind yourself of how much work you’ve done, and motivate yourself to do more. You’ll be amazed at how much you accomplish as an Academic Writing Club member!

Club Wiki
The Club Wiki is an ever-growing database of resources that helps with academic writing, and coping with academia in general. You, your coaches, and fellow group members will continue to enrich it by adding new insights over the course of each Writing Club session. All ideas, thoughts, information, and links are geared toward helping you become a more productive academic writer.

Group Coaching Calls
Every Writing Club session includes live group coaching calls. These are coach-run sessions, which offer fascinating insight and support into issues that are rarely discussed among academics.

Chats
Enjoy access to 3 chat rooms — a private group chat room, a room for grad students or professors, and a site-wide chat we fondly call the Club Cafe©. Have real-time discussions, share tips and encouragement, create group-writing challenges, hold virtual café writing dates, and more!

Challenge Chats
Multiple times each week, you can check in to a coach-moderated Challenge Chat. You’ll announce what you plan to work on, and then you’ll proceed to do your planned writing for 25 minutes. Afterward, everyone will reconvene and discuss how it went! It sounds simple, but it’s a powerful way to keep you on track with your writing.
Specialty Coaching
Monthly “People Like Me” calls focus on life in academia in light of different life experiences or personal circumstances. These moderated calls are opportunities to connect with members who may share a similar story to your own, including academics who are new parents, those living with chronic illness, or some who were victims of academic bullying. We poll our members to determine the class topic beforehand – listen or join in!

Interactive Workshops
Moderated by Dr. Debra Payne, our resident ACC Certified coach and academic expert, these tele-workshops are shaped by Writing Club polls to specifically meet your needs. Each session features a short presentation, followed by a lively Q&A session, and coaching tailored to help overcome your specific obstacles. Learn, interact, and become motivated by workshops like “Perfectionism, Procrastination and Martyrdom,” “Mental Health and How to Keep it When You’re Perpetually Isolated,” and “Time Management in the Face of No Available Time.”

Maintain Your Writing Productivity
Coaching Groups, Classes, and Your Coach Provide Education and Inspiration
Every 4-week Academic Writing Club session is packed with ways to help you maintain your newfound level of productivity. Each session features a Group Coaching Call, our “Six Strategies for Productive Writing” class, a “People Like Me” moderated coaching discussion group (e.g. parents, disabilities, people of color), and an Interactive Workshop on topics that can affect your experience in academia.

I can’t believe how much I’m getting done. Why didn’t I do this years ago? (Because I was laboring under the myth that ‘If you don’t have hours to write, you can’t accomplish anything,’ that’s why.)
Assistant Professor
You’ll also have access to multiple weekly coach-moderated “Challenge Chats,” a Small-Group Forum and Chat Room, and 3 site-wide Chat Rooms – for everyone, for professors, and for grad students – where you can plug in and stay motivated.