Building a Publishing Pipeline

Erin Furtak, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder

As academics, we have been told time and again to write often and as much as we can, but no one teaches us how to keep track of the many different projects that we may be working on at any given time. As a result, we are pulled in multiple directions, and incremental progress made on multiple manuscripts can make it feel like our productivity – and our motivation – is at a standstill. By conceptualizing all of your writing projects as moving through a pipeline, you can make progress on a daily basis and keep everything flowing towards publication. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Establish a sustainable daily writing practice

• Experiment with a tracking system to analyze where to focus your writing and research efforts

• Make a concrete action plan for moving several projects forward simultaneously

• Celebrate the process of moving your work from one stage of the pipeline to the next