"Mapping Your Current Writing Projects to This Semester: Strategic Planning for Scholarly Success" 

A virtual workshop for TWU faculty (Jan 26, 2:30-3:30pm)

Faculty often begin each semester with ambitious writing goals and plans to complete scholarly projects, but these well-intentioned plans frequently fail because they don't account for the specific realities of the current semester's demands. Many scholars create writing schedules without considering heavy teaching preparations, back-to-back classes with only one-hour gaps, committee obligations, and the reality that small pockets of "free" time often get consumed by email and administrative tasks rather than meaningful writing progress. Without realistic mapping of actual available time against writing project needs, faculty end up frustrated and behind on their scholarly goals.

In this virtual workshop,* you'll learn systematic approaches for analyzing your specific semester schedule to identify genuine writing opportunities and align them strategically with your project deadlines and submission goals. The workshop covers techniques for protecting small time blocks from email and administrative creep, methods for breaking writing projects into semester-appropriate chunks that fit your actual schedule constraints, and strategies for leveraging different types of available time for specific writing tasks. You'll discover how to create realistic writing timelines that account for teaching intensity, conference travel, and other semester-specific demands while maintaining forward momentum on publication goals. You'll leave with a personalized semester writing map that maximizes your actual available time, templates for protecting writing time from competing demands, and concrete strategies for turning even fragmented schedules into productive scholarly writing periods.