The plan you keep meaning to make. This is the session where you actually build it.
How to Create Your Summer Writing Plan
Leave with a concrete, week-by-week writing plan built around your real article, your real calendar, and how your writing actually works.
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Thursday, 18 June 2026 ยท 14:00 CET ยท Free ยท Emerge Cafe ยท One hour
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How to Create Your Summer Writing Plan
Free ยท 18 June ยท Emerge Cafe
"The plan that fails is the one built for a better version of your summer. The plan that works is built for the summer you actually have."
The thoughts that keep showing up
Every summer I plan to finish the article. By September I am explaining to myself why next year will be different.
I know I need to plan my writing. I just never know how to turn a vague intention into an actual schedule.
I always underestimate how much everything else takes over. Summer is never as free as it looks from May.
I write a plan on a spreadsheet and feel organised. Then I open it in July and realise it assumed a version of my summer that does not exist.
My writing blocks are in the calendar. But something always comes up, and I never have a rule for deciding what actually happens.
I know roughly what I want to write. I do not know how to get from that rough sense to a structured, working plan.
These are not planning failures. They are predictable consequences of a planning method not built for how academic work actually runs. This workshop shows you a different approach.
Yes, this is meSix things a working writing plan actually needs
Each topic comes with a concrete decision you make during the session. By the end, you have a plan โ not a template to fill in later.
One hour. One completed plan. One clear summer.
Thursday, 18 June 2026 ยท 14:00 CET ยท Free
Save my placeWhat you will leave with
Not a framework to fill in later. A completed writing plan for your article, your summer, and your actual commitments.
A defined article goal.
What done looks like, in one sentence: a specific word count, a specific journal, a specific submission date. Not a direction โ a destination.
A weekly breakdown you can actually follow.
From where you are now to submission, mapped week by week, with realistic writing time and enough built-in slack that the first disruption does not break everything.
A strategy for protecting your writing time.
Not "book it in the calendar." A decision rule: what happens when something conflicts with your writing session, so you do not have to negotiate it in the moment every time.
Separate phases for separate cognitive work.
Which weeks are for brainstorming, which for drafting, which for revision. The plan tells you what mode you are in before you open the document โ so you spend each session writing, not deciding what to do.
Rest built in, not bolted on.
A plan that treats rest as a disruption will be abandoned in week three. We account for the parts of summer that are for recovery, so the writing sessions that remain are sustainable.
This workshop is for you if...
You have a specific article you want to submit this summer and need to plan how it actually gets done.
You have tried planning before and the plan fell apart by July โ not because you gave up, but because the plan was not built for the summer you had.
You want to start July with a concrete plan in hand, not a general intention to write more.
You are willing to be honest about what is actually in your calendar this summer โ and build the plan around that, not the calendar you wish you had.
Not yet sure what is blocking you? Workshop 1 on 11 June โ Five Reasons Your Article Isn't Published Yet โ is a better starting point.
"I spend the first few weeks catching my breath. By the time I am ready to write, it is already August."
You leave with a concrete, week-by-week plan that accounts for rest, real commitments, and how your writing actually works.
This article has to stay in 2025. I will submit it today. Regardless of how happy I am with it.
Melanie Sindelar
Academic Writing and Career Coach
Melanie is an academic writing and career coach with more than ten years of experience supporting PhD candidates, postdocs, and early career researchers with academic writing and publishing.
As an Assistant Professor, published academic, journal reviewer, and Chief Editor of an academic journal, she knows the journal article process from several sides. She has seen the same planning failures appear again and again: summers that started with good intentions and ended without a submission.
This workshop is built from that pattern โ and from what actually makes summer writing plans work.
She brings together the perspectives most academics rarely get in one place: coach, editor, author, reviewer, and journal editor.
If you want to take it further
This workshop gives you the plan. Submission by September is the 8-week programme where you implement it: argument, structure, evidence, revision โ one step per week, with one article submitted to a journal by the end of August as the goal.
Workshop 1 gave you a diagnosis. This workshop gives you a plan. The programme is where you execute both โ with structure, peer feedback, and a real deadline.
Join us on 18 June
One free hour to build a summer writing plan that accounts for your real calendar, your real capacity, and your real article.
Thursday, 18 June 2026 ยท 14:00 CET ยท Free ยท Emerge Cafe
