AcWriMo 2024 is almost here to help you build and deepen your writing practice at a time of year when it is SO hard to keep writing

since 2018, I've hosted a month of free resources for academics called AcWriMo. Styled after National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. because academic writing can be so much more varied than writing the draft of a novel, and because academics normally don't need any more excuses to heap pressure on themselves, i frame it as a month to reconnect and deepen writing practices. there are workbooks, tracking dashboards, skill building opportunities, themed weeks of focus, and more - and all for free.

this year, i’m working with dr. kate henry to bring you a month of support and fun to help you care for your writing, and yourself. so much of academic writing is about how to produce more - and so little of it talks about how you take care of yourself in order to produce on that level and at that tempo. we are so excited to be bringing you tools, strategies, and frameworks to help you create in a more sustainable, and maybe even fun, way. writing doesn’t need to be all pushing and strain and toil all the time - and if your practice felt just 5% more satisfying, imagine how much easier it would be to do it regularly. and you just might find that when your writing practice is more pleasurable, your writing feels better, and comes more easily, too.

custom trackers, worksheets, and workbooks to help provide structure

there’s a workbook to help you think through the month, trackers to help you see (and celebrate!) your progress, worksheets to help you structure your experiments and assess the results, and another workbook to wrap it all up!

encouraging, informative content every tuesday

every week there will fresh, fun new content to help you build, experiment, and play with your writing practice. think new skills to try, new strategies to experiment with, and new ways to connect with the ideas that made you want to write about these topics in the first place!