Catie Phares

“I hate writing… should I leave academia?” “How can I be good at something I really don’t like? Every minute of it is a struggle.” These were two separate responses I heard from two clients when I assured them that, as assistant business professors, they were now essentially professional writers. Both had reached out to me because they lacked confidence in this critical aspect of a successful career in academia. Both had expected that I’d give them frameworks and information that would help:...

Strategic academic editing can do more than improve prose. In this case study, three business school coauthors struggling with conflicting priorities and communication breakdowns transformed a fragmented manuscript into a cohesive submission ultimately published in Management Science. Learn how editorial mediation, narrative restructuring, and publication-focused revisions helped restore momentum.

Maximizing your academic writing productivity during peak season doesn’t happen by chance—it requires a deliberate, structured approach. Many researchers enter the summer with high expectations, only to end up overwhelmed, behind schedule, and frustrated by unfinished drafts. The key to breaking this cycle lies in a simple but powerful framework: pause, plan, then progress. By first allowing time to rest and reset, then mapping out realistic goals, and finally committing to consistent writing se