Cool. Amazing. Well, cool. Let us dive into it.

So very welcome to this class where we're going over how to write a research article in as little as eight weeks.

So you can get published in those top tier journals consistently. And my goal in this webinar is to show you exactly what to do step by step from week one to week eight.

So you are able to write research papers a lot faster and at the same time make sure that your papers are actually telling a coherent and compelling story.

So I really get you here because I'm assuming you likely have a backlog of unwritten or half-written papers that you maybe feel a little overwhelmed by.

And maybe you also want to start reaching just like a wider group of readers because Getting desk rejected when you're doing good science and you're just not sure, what am I doing wrong is really frustrating.

And many of you probably also want to be just better able to mentor your students by being able to teach them a systematic writing process.

Now, this webinar isn't a good fit if you don't like a free training that includes an invitation to join my newest online program.

And it's super exciting. It's called Submit It In Eight Weeks. I can't wait to tell you more about it later on.

And before we dig in, I also just want to clarify for which disciplines I created this webinar.

So this training is tailored to researchers who write papers based on data they have gathered, whether quantitative or qualitative.

So if you are in the fields of physical health, life, earth, social sciences, any of the sciences, very welcome.

However, if you're on the humanities, this may not be such a good fit for you. But of course, you can stay and see if it still makes sense.

All right. I want to start with a little fun story. You know, has anyone here watched The White Lotus?

The third season has just come to an end and I just found it utterly compelling to watch. I was really really into it. I loved all the season but somehow this one I don't know, hooked me in a different way. Just like brilliant, brilliant acting

Let me know in the chat if anyone has seen it.

If you have any white lotus plants in the room Andrea says love the word lotus. Yes, yes. I wondered yet. Oh, Christina, you're in for a trade. I kind of envy you for not having seen it. Same with Anne.

That'd be awesome. Great. Do watch it. Okay.

Let's say Timothy from the last season. Maybe some of you don't know him yet anyway. He's one of the main characters and he let's say he proposes the slightly shady deal to us and that's something he might do. And he'd say, okay, he has $30,000, but you have to compete with someone else.

The first professor who writes a paper that gets accepted for publication in Nature Communication Now, let's take two fictional professors, Paula and Ezra.

Who approached this contest very differently. So both have those solid and interesting data that indeed would be suitable for publication in Nature Communications.

Okay, let's start with Paula. And Paula, well, she doesn't really know where to start this huge and slightly intimidating project. And she's just stabbed by the blank document that stares back at her whenever she sits down to write. So for the first week or so, she doesn't really start the work.

Then when polar does start. She does a very thorough literature search and that's, of course, great. But then she ends up including and referencing so many studies in her article that she exceeds the word limit of her journal in the first draft.

And when Paula's writing, she just tries to get each sentence into perfect shape before she can move on to the next sentence or paragraph.

And then finally, when her courses read the completed draft. This actually suggests to completely change the flow of the paper, which means now she has to spend extra time and completely rewrite the thing.

All right. Then though, there's Ezra. And Ezra is a little different. Well, here's what she does.

After she has analyzed all her data, she starts the writing process immediately by developing the story of her paper first.

And this allows her to identify the most relevant literature that kind of tie her findings into the succinct and compelling narrative Also, Ezra produces a first dirty draft really quickly.

So in the editing stage is only when she makes sure that her writing is clear and succinct.

And when her co-authors read the draft, they only have minor changes to suggest because they actually all agreed on the storyline Before Ezra even put any time into writing the paper.

Now, I know we don't have a Timothy wanting to give us $30,000.

But as a professor, you kind of get to decide whether you want to be a polar. And I don't know if anyone feels like admitting in the chat that they are polar because I know a lot of professors are and

I know that because I work with a lot of professors and everyone kind of thinks that they are the only ones feeling this way so Origina, thank you for putting in the chat here, Paula, because Honestly, what I want to show everyone is that you are not alone feeling like you're Paula. I feel like Paula is like the ground state. This is where we all start out. It's just like.

The way if nobody ever teaches us how to do it, this is how we start out writing a paper.

Yeah, and also says definitely a pollen. Maquetta is a bit of both. Cool. Another pull out. All right.

Well um If we have not met yet, I'm Dr. Anna Clay Wentz and I'm here to help all the polar researchers of the world to become Ezra.

I am sort of the bridge between academic writing coaches who help you make time to write.

And those editors who help you improve the content of your paper.

The core of my work is what I call the journal publication formula, and that's a step-by-step system to write clear, concise and compelling articles time efficiently.

In the last four to five years. The journal publication formula has helped almost a thousand of professors, postdocs, PhD students, and other researchers Who would Paula's become Ezra's? And these researchers now feel confident in their writing because they can rely on a process that works

And gets them a paper written for high ranking journal in a timeframe that they can control.

So I want to speak to you about two mistakes that I see professors make that just keep them stuck in polar mode, so to say.

Okay, this take number one is thinking that your main writing problem is finding more time in your busy schedule to write.

Now, I think that's some bad writing advice out there. Some people are saying, well, you should write every day or You should start writing as early into a project as possible or the story will develop as you write.

I don't know if this writing advice sounds familiar to anyone at all.

Put it in the chat if it does. Anyone heard this?

I think it's pretty common.

Lots of people swear by the ones a day in the morning. Yes, all the time. Yep, all three. Yep, right, every day. Yep. Some people swear by it. And then for other people, it just doesn't work.

All right. I think this writing advice leaves you in a dilemma because many professors have a long backlog of papers and are just asking themselves, well, how can I possibly finish all the articles that I've started?

Because I know you have a lot of projects running simultaneously and it's really difficult for you to find gaps in your busy schedule that has like teaching at loads of e-wells meetings all the things in there So it's really hard to find time to write.

So let's chat in the chat how many unwritten or half-written papers do you have sitting in the drawer? Anyone want to confess up to it. Also, no shame here. I've heard all the numbers.

I've had 25 before, so if it's just… a few it's very, very little.

Five at least four to five, about eight probably 10, at least five yeah five to six. Oh, hi, Sarah.

Cool. All right. Well, this is Thanks for sharing. Again, I love de-shaming these kind of things.

Um… All right. A very important point to take away is that Writing a paper doesn't necessarily mean just writing, quote unquote writing And I think what's happening is that many professors just start writing too soon.

They start typing words into a word processor before they have done all the work that actually could save them time.

So I prepared a table here to visualize this for you, and this is just an example.

But typically, we don't do any story development at the start.

We do know a little outlining. Instead, we start writing immediately. So we spend the bulk of our time in writing and editing mode.

And creating the figures is also part of the process that just can be so time consuming, especially when we have put a lot of work into getting a figure into perfect shape and then get comments from authors that mean we have to now completely redo those figures.

Yes, I've been there. It's very frustrating. Then writing title, abstract and cover letter can also take huge amounts of work.

If we just don't follow a framework, because writing those things then requires this like last minute tweaking And then we also have to do some proofreading, of course, before we submit our manuscript Okay, in this example, we have spent something like 300 hours on the whole paper

I don't know if that sounds like a lot a little to you right now. Remember just an example. I think maybe chances are you don't actually know how many hours you are spending on writing a paper.

So if actually after this webinar you only do one thing, I would suggest that you start tracking the time it takes you to write a paper. So whenever you sit down to write to work on your paper, whatever tasks associated with that.

Start a timer. Okay, no.

After using the general publication formula. That's the method I'm teaching, the distribution of time will look somewhat differently.

We first invest some time into story development. And this usually doesn't even take that long.

We also really focus on getting a good outline for each section.

Now, this is where it feels really scary. Because we have spent almost 20 hours and not written anything.

And this is the one reason, I think, or one of the reasons why it is so hard to do these steps.

Now, I don't know, do you hear my dog barking in the background?

Let me one second. Let me pause and I'll come back in one second. I'll shut her up.

Sorry, everyone. That just distracted me way too much. Yeah, anyone else has a barking dog? My dog only started barking since we moved to a quieter place and now every noise sets are all. All right.

So we were talking about that writing and editing will still take a large amount of work.

But it can take a lot less with all the prep work that we've done before.

All right. We also save time. I'm out of breath. We also save time creating the figures In the ideal case, we don't have to redo any of our work because we've actually already storyboarded our figures in the first step.

Now, coming up with a great title, a really compelling abstract and cover letter is also literally a matter of a couple hours with a journal publication formula.

Because we have done all the necessary steps again already in week number one.

I'll step number one. And we also cut down on the time proofreading.

So in total, in this example We have spent a lot less time on the whole paper writing process. And if you spent anywhere near those 74 hours, I mean, this is a little random but actually it is quite a realistic number. So if you do this over the course of eight weeks, that would be an average approximately two hours

Per workday. So Monday to Friday, two hours. And depending on your teaching word and other commitments.

In a certain time period, this is very realistic for a lot of professors because remember, you don't have to do this all year round.

All right. It's not about spending more time writing. It's really about using your writing sessions more effectively.

Okay, this inefficient writing process that I was just talking about, this also leads to another problem. And that problem is that it leads to that you tell an inconsistent or uncompelling story in your article.

So why is that a problem? Well, take, for example, the journal editor. They are often getting a lot of manuscripts that they need to sift through.

And depending on the journal desk rejection rates are high so Some may only have literally minutes to assess your paper.

Also consider how and when scientific papers are being read. Many researchers have hardly time to read the literature because the workload, as you know in academia, is just so high.

And maybe they slept badly in us last night because their baby was up Or they're kind of peer reviewing your article You know, after they had a glass of wine for dinner or something like that and The peer review often just doesn't take the highest

Priority in a peer review schedule. We also tend to vastly overestimate

This being somewhat outside the topic of the paper

Okay, just being somewhat outside the topic of the paper can mean that we really struggle understanding it.

And when your paper tells an inconsistent or uncompelling story. Well, the journal editor Well, they might find your paper similar to boring.

So they may think, well, this data is just not significant enough for publication in my journal.

And your peer reviewer may misunderstand your findings and the overall aim of your study.

And readers from a field slightly outside yours may just give up and stop reading your paper and thus never even citing it.

Now, what's the best way to avoid boredom and confusion? Well, the good news is there is a concept that really helps us with that, and that's storytelling.

So I'm really curious who here is already using storytelling please Vote in the poll that I have to pull up.

Lawrence.

Let's see. And the session this morning, there were loads of attendees who had never written a paper, which I've not written a paper, never used storytelling when writing a paper and um I thought that was interesting, but most of you actually try to tell stories. That's very cool.

Sometimes.

Alrighty. I'll end the poll and share the results. So most people actually try to tell stories, but there's also a significant chunk of people who have never tried but would like to. Okay, let me tell you more about this so

Why is storytelling so great? Well, because storytelling gives our readers the context they need to understand and appreciate your study.

So what is really important to understand, I think, is that it's incredibly difficult for your reader to absorb new information like your data, if your reader doesn't have an already existing framework in place that they can connect that new information to.

So in this scenario. What happens to this new piece of information? Well, it just bounces off.

So if you don't want it to bounce off, we as the reader need to make an effort In other words, spend some calories to build the connection to that new information based on what existing knowledge we have.

So let's say, for example, your data shows that vanadium oxide can selectively oxidize ammonia to nitric oxide.

Now, if you're not an expert in the field of this author, you have no idea how significant this finding is.

Now, what happens if you communicate your data and provide context. Well, context also that your reader's brain has already a framework for So in this scenario, the reader can properly now absorb and process that piece of information.

They don't need to spend any calories. In other words, we are making our readers job easy.

So let's talk about the scientists who found that vanadium oxide can selectively oxidize ammonia to nitric oxide. How could they make their reader's job easy? Well, they could, for example.

This reaction is currently being done using expensive platinum-based catalysts and these produce huge amount of greenhouse gases during the reaction.

And therefore, their study is an indication for how the nitric acid manufactured industry can become more sustainable while also saving money.

Now, this is context that just turned this result into a story.

Now, therefore. I think it's really true. Reporting interesting data just is not enough.

You also need to help your reader understand how it is relevant to their journal, to the field and to their own research.

And that has to be done in every section, almost every paragraph of your paper.

So roughly we can say for a story we need three elements. I mean, I would say we need more, but these three are kind of the core.

And the very most important thing is an element of tension. So we need to Give the reader some kind of problem or gap that we're solving.

We also need to give the reader a central takeaway. This is your most important finding or conclusion.

And most professors forget this when they write papers, the implication of your study.

What do your findings mean in the context of your problem?

And defining these elements actually helps us structuring our sections. This is why doing the structuring, doing the writing process, you know, not in the way I laid out earlier actually makes it way inefficient.

The problem gap is what you will use in your introduction section to motivate your study.

So in your introduction section, you want to convince the reader why the problem is important and urgent.

Your central takeaway, well, this is what you organize your results section around in the ideal case, in the best case. I mean, this is what I would definitely do. And We want to provide in the results section an argument for why a central takeaway is true.

Finally, the implications of your study should become apparent in the discussion section that sets your findings in perspective how they contribute to solving the gap.

The gap we introduced in the introduction section. All right. So by developing a story first, you make your reader's job easy. And when you make it your mission to make your reader's job easy, believe me, publishing success will follow.

Now, let me walk you through this a bit in eight weeks plan. So how do we do this week by week? Well.

In week one, we start with developing our story. So we need to master the scientific story framework. I just gave you a little tiny introduction to it.

In the next step, we wanted to find the audience of your story. So who's going to be reading our story or what is the best journal to choose for your particular paper.

Then we will be constructing our argument And this is something that may sound more maybe like something academics and the humanities do, but it is essential we think about this even in science papers.

Here is when we choose which results, which data is going to be included in your paper.

And in which order are we going to present everything to make a good argument?

Then we need to define what are called key story elements. We just looked at three roughly, but… Yeah, I always teach five of them. They make the story really like the core of the story really strong.

All right, I want you to meet Jordan, Assistant Professor who was one of my clients.

And Jordan said that when she started working with me, she did question whether she belonged in academia at all.

What really brought tears to my eyes was when she later told me after she had learned the journal publication formula, how much confidence she got about her writing.

And at the end, she said, I am now fully committed to my academic career.

Okay, week two. We are going to develop our results section. Well, what does that mean?

Well, we are gonna look at which data are we going to include in which order. We did a little bit of that in the step before, but now we're really going to fine tune everything and look really granularly at each data set.

We're also going to think about subsection headings. And how to kind of order that whole section.

We're also going to create a paragraph outline of the whole section. So yes, we're thinking about every single paragraph in the section and what the contents should be.

And to achieve flow in this results section. We are using the party formula to create that outline and party i made this up.

It's such a great little hack. It stands for purpose, approach, data, interpretation. So each paragraph should have all of those elements ideally.

All right, we also have Gia. Gia is an assistant professor and more often than not She said she would have an editing nightmare with her co-authors. But since being a member of the Researchers Writing Academy, this is one of my writing programs.

She says she cannot write a draft in just four weeks, which I find amazing.

Well done, Gia. You really took this to the next level.

All right. Hunter week number three, where we tackle developing the introduction and discussion section. So we also develop them.

First, so what are we going to do? Well, we're going to make a paragraph outline of both sections using the hourglass structure. I don't know if you have heard of this concept.

But it works really, really well. You start broad in the introduction, narrow down as you go through the introduction and on the most narrow point And in the discussion.

You start narrow and you go broad as you go through the discussion section.

Now, I also think using the flow formula, this is some really like fundamental knowledge, I think, how you can connect sentences with each other. It makes all the difference you can turn I don't know. This is like a secret hack, really. Almost every piece of writing into something more logical, more easily digestible for the reader.

Also good citation practices are really important at this point. So really knowing, okay, how can I avoid citation bias?

And all those things. Okay, I want you to read Katya. She's a disparities researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. And Katya said she was hooked from the first module of the journal publication formula.

Before enrolling, she would get stuck writing papers because she said she suffered from perfectionism and doubt in herself.

But after learning the job publication formula, she now feels confident guiding her co-authors through the process, which made it feel really manageable to her.

Okay, week number four. We are finally writing. Can you believe it? Well, we will start with your methods and your results section.

And what will we do? Well, in the methods section, we will make sure everything is easy to navigate.

And we will provide the right amount of detail. This is super tricky in the methods section.

In the results section, what we will do is write a little I call it the lay of the land paragraph.

This is a little roadmap for your readers. This is the very first paragraph in the results section.

And especially if you have longer results section or several subsections.

Do you read a favor? Tell them what they can expect in this section.

Then we also want to know or we also want to describe our findings in the most clear and concise way so there's no disambiguity.

Okay, on to week number five, and this is where we will create figures and write our introduction.

So we will create clear, concise figures. Maybe you have tables depending on your field. You may have a table or in qualitative studies, you sometimes also have more like schematics or some other kind of graphical elements will make those in week five. And we'll also use the five foundations of clear and concise writing to write a strong and to the point introduction section

No bloated, no bloated section, no lengthy section, like super, super tight And we will pay special attention to the first sentence in the introduction section. It is so important because this is literally the first sentence of your paper, so you need to hook your reader like it pays off spending a little extra time on this sentence.

And we want to write wrap up the story paragraph, just a little paragraph to round off this section. It's not a must, but in many fields We do this to kind of round off the story in the introduction and give our readers a little bit of a preview of what is to come.

All right. I want you to mute so you'll see who's an associate professor at Duke University Medical Center.

And so you will see, well, she had actually been writing papers for quite some time because before she started working with me.

But she found that even learning the journal publication formula later in her career May the co-writing process with her students and courses so much more efficient. Like she sent me several emails, which is so sweet. And she sent me this one email.

Where she said that one of her co-authors actually commented that the outline of her paper was very impressive.

And it actually took her only three months to get that paper published after having sent this outline to her co-authors. So she was really, really productive. It was really, really efficient for her.

Okay, week number six, we write our discussion and conclusion section. So what will we do here?

Well, we will make sure we are differentiating well between the information that we put in our introduction versus discussion.

We don't duplicate information, but we really make sure that we are discussing things in our discussion.

And make sure both work together. So we set things up, the introduction and in this discussion We take those things and discuss them in connection with our results.

We also write an effective conclusion section if our paper requires one.

And we will pay special attention to describing the broader implications of our study effectively.

Alright, I want you to meet Gabriella and Gabriella is a professor who wrote this email to me where she said that after writing a paper using the journal publication formula, she had the nicest ever review process in her 30 years of academia.

It's just beautiful. And she said she received comments such as well written, or I liked reading this article, nicely presented.

And these comments weren't usual for her to receive as a non-native speaker.

All right, we almost made it. Now we want to edit your paper in three rounds. So you're going to do a self editing week well These three rounds really make sure that you can self-edit without the perfectionism, which of course is always a real big problem if we're editing our own work.

And it also makes sure that we can kind of look at our paper with a bit different pairs of eyes different pairs of glasses on again.

Because if you've really been close to the study, we've worked on this now for six weeks, it's really, really hard to do this effectively. This is why We do three rounds. The first round is we just look at the story.

No moving commas around. Second round is we just look at paragraphs and flow. Is the information flowing logically from one sentence to the next, from one paragraph to the next?

Third round, clarity and concertion. Is everything super clear or am I using like synonyms that are meaning the same thing that a reader might get confused about?

Could I like shrink down the sentence because I'm actually providing loads more or using loads more words that I could just, you know, cut out These kind of things. All right, then we have Christina. Christina was one of my one-on-one clients

And using the journal publication for Miller, she really understood that she indeed had interesting data.

Now, this is something interesting that happens quite a lot when you start developing your story. A lot of professors I've been working with have said.

Oh, actually, these are interesting and important results. I didn't quite realize.

Just how interesting these are because when you're like so close to your to your research the whole time, to your data.

You kind of sometimes just kind of sometimes Zooming out and looking at the bigger picture makes you realize how this all fits in.

Christina also found the writing process following the journal publication formula really enjoyable, which a lot of researchers I've worked with have said, which is so, so nice And she has become more confident about her writing.

Okay, last week we've almost made it. What do we do? Well, we format our paper. We do one proofread and we also want to package the whole thing for publication.

So what does that mean? We want to craft an effective title, provide a compelling abstract.

Honestly, in minutes because we can just plug and play those key story elements from week number one And we want to write a persuasive cover letter. And the story really helps. The story elements really help with that too.

All right, finally, Casper professor in Sweden and He wasn't quite sure when he started working with me how to get the flow of the writing in his paper right.

He had a paper he wanted to submit to a high impact journal, and I helped him understand exactly how to present his findings so that his paper told us one hearing compelling story. And as a result, it was really fun to hear the paper got accepted in one of the top tier journals in chemistry

Oh, right. Here is the whole eight-week plan Feel free to take a screenshot if you want to keep this, if you want to try this out on your own.

Just waiting here for one sec. All right.

If you take away only one thing from this webinar, I want you to know it is possible to write a research article for top tier journal in as little as eight weeks.

Without endless iterations that just eat up so much time. Now, the big question, of course, is how can you apply this framework to your own work and create a standardized process to write publications for high ranking journals.

And if you would like my support with implementing the eight-week plan, both in terms of accountability during the weeks and also tailored feedback at each step of the process, then you're really warmly invited to join my brand new program, which is called Submitted in eight

Got some confetti as well. And it is a private one-on-one academic writing program with me as your coach.

Okay, let's have a look what's included. Suck.

We have. First, we will co-develop together an eight-week writing plan for you.

And that writing plan is tailored to your availability during the eight weeks and the status of your paper. Maybe it's already a little written, half written, or maybe it's even fully written. It's even possible.

To go over fully written paper together. Every Monday, you will receive an email with your to-dos for the week.

Which lessons to watch and also which writing tasks to do.

You will also receive feedback on your writing every week from me.

And in total we will meet for three private Zoom sessions where we can discuss your writing and any sticking points you've experienced in the process.

You also will get access to those goodies here. The first one is the journal publication formula. I've mentioned this one a lot.

It is my online course that you will get access to. And each week you will be instructed to watch a couple of lessons and the lessons are really short and engaging. I'm giving plenty of examples from different fields and there are worksheets, templates and checklists to make everything you learned easy to apply.

What's going to be really, really powerful is that you will also have access for the whole eight weeks to multiple co-writing sessions.

Per week. We're currently actually offering six sessions per week. That is across time zones.

And we also offer like half day writing retreats about two to four times a month as well that you have access to.

And let's see, why is co-writing great? Well, firstly, super motivating to write in community with other academics.

I don't know if you have done co-writing before. Feel free to put it in the chat if you have. I know Andrea has hosted a lot of curating sessions.

And um It is just the energy in those is just so special and so inspiring. It is… So, so fun.

Secondly, the second good thing is that You have writing sessions booked in your calendar, which will make sure that you won't deprioritize your writing.

You don't have to honor meeting with yourself because you'll literally have a meeting with other people. So it makes it so much easier to show up because you know other people are waiting for you.

Also, you'll really learn a more structured approach to writing because we use a very structured We use a very structured approach to those sessions where you have five minute goal settings in the beginning, 50 minutes writing session, five minute reflections.

And this just helps you firstly set realistic goals because you train it every hour again and again and again, and also just really keeps the momentum going because you have a very clear time. When do I break? When do I start? All the things.

All right. Third thing is the webinar bonus. We're very excited about this. So when you enroll in the program by April 30th.

You will get 10% off the regular price and the regular price is 3,500 US dollars for this one-on-one.

Private program. So this is a whole 350 US dollars off that you can save if you enroll by April 30th, end of the month.

If… Andrea, you could pop The link in the chat where people can join, that would be great.

Yeah. So I think the question isn't so much how great it will feel to have your paper submitted in eight weeks.

Because that will feel great. It's what may happen to your career when you're able to pull this off consistently.

How much time are you currently spending on getting a paper written and published? If you want to share in the comments, feel free to share.

Again, love to be honest about these things. And if you're enrolled and submitted in eight weeks today.

Just think how much time could you save throughout your whole career?

I think a return on investment is so easy for this program because you learn this like repeatable process to write papers that will free up your time each time you write a paper and really ensure that your paper it's just way more likely

To be accepted in your target journal. All right, let's remember Katya who now feels confident guiding her co-authors through the whole writing process.

Toyosi who could cut down significantly. On the time her group spends on writing and rewriting manuscripts because she now knows how to loop in her quarters early Gia, who can write a paper draft in four weeks. Gabriella who had the easiest ever peer review process

All right, here's what's included once again. I'm sorry I went a little over the time, but we have your customer's writing plan.

You get weekly planning prompts and instructions, weekly detailed writing feedback on what you developed, what you wrote.

Three private Zoom sessions with me and my online course, the journal publication formula And all those co-writing sessions up to six times per week that you can join.

And as of today, as of just now, we have only three spots left for this program for this summer or winter if you're in the southern hemisphere if you're watching the recording and you're sitting in Australia and you have winter coming up

You can do this in the winter too. For those of us in the northern hemisphere, the summer is really ideal for this.

As well as most of us have a little less teaching, a little more time And we have high goals high um a lot of maybe papers we want to get finished this summer, so this is a really good way to get at least one good paper out of the door.

And yeah, as I said, there's a bonus, a little discount you can get if you use the code webinar at checkout. I should put this in the Chad?

So this is the discount code to use but if you use the The link that Andrea provided above, it's also applied. And yeah, the spots will go on our first come first serve basis.

Yeah, let me know. Does anyone have any questions? Any questions about submitted in eight weeks? Any questions about writing about the process, about getting published Let me know.

Souza is barking again. Natalia, give way.

All right. Any questions? Oh, I should check the Q&A box. That would probably help.

Oh, no questions on that.

Tommy asks, oh, good question. How do you incorporate creative feedback in the plan?

Both our feedback pipe and the plot. Yeah, this is a little difficult, Tammy, because of course we won't be able to probably get cool with the feedback in those eight weeks.

But what we can do is that we don't have the eight weeks consecutively. So I think it's really, really good One of the clients I'm going to work with What she's going to do is she's before we start already reaching out to her co-author

And saying, hey, I'm doing this program. You can expect me to send you this.

So for example, for the storyboard, you can expect me to send you this this day. And if you can, I would like your feedback back a week later or something like that. So really talking to them and making sure that

That they have a little time carved out or otherwise one could also stretch out the eight weeks a bit longer so we can take some breaks in the middle to make sure that there is time for co-author feedback.

Depending on how many people you have involved. And I think it always helps with co-authors to have um Well, to talk to them before you're start writing or if you take the program before you take the program or if you do this on your own before you start writing

And get their feedback at several points during the process. So you definitely want to get feedback after the storyboard. The key story elements are so, so essential. So do make sure Everyone agrees on that. That's like the most important point for co-author feedback. And as you have a storyboard and not just a whole draft.

It takes no time for them to look through that. That's the beauty of it too. The ask you're making of your quarters is way shorter.

In terms of time commitment. And then the next thing will be your outlines, right? Your section outlines. And maybe they don't even need to see every section outline, depending on how you kind of divided up the tasks. Maybe that's just their section they need to okay or something like that.

Okay, I hope this was helpful. Tammy, feel free to ask follow-up questions.

Isn't the cover letter key? Yes, the cover letter is key. Definitely. The cover letter is very, very important.

And I have a template for this for you if you join this program, I can give you my template Which is very effective. And you can write a very good capital letter and get my feedback on your cover letter.

All right, lots of thanks. You're very welcome.

Having this is always a struggle cool that makes sense. Glad to hear.

Okay. Regina asks, why is this process suitable for science papers but not for social science and humanities ones? Well, it is it has worked for social sciences.

It does work for social sciences. It does work for every paperwork that has data that starts with data Potentially it does work for humanities too, you know, but I'm saying I can't guarantee it and I don't work with people in the humanities because I'm not from the humanities.

And I am not sure exactly how those papers are written. It's just a little bit of a different process, I think, when you don't like have your own data, but you rather, you know, it's just, I don't want to talk about the humanities now, but there's just a bit of a different process I think that is happening on the more micro level.

But I guess on the macro level, it could still be useful.

Cool. Any more questions?

Glad to hear it was insightful. Perfect. We'll send out the recording to everyone later on.

As for the submitted in eight weeks program so This is perfect if you have any professional development funds that you want to spend. I know the situation in the US is very dire right now and If you have money, if you have professional development money

Literally spend it if it's this program or something else, do spend it before anyone takes it away.

But even outside the us You don't have to pay for this out of your personal funds. Ask a university.

There is often a lot of hidden funding available that that you just have to ask for. We actually have a blog post about this. I've wrote a blog post about this once.

How you can ask for funding, kind of how you can make the ask. Oh, thanks, Andre. Wow, that was fun. That's the blog post.

So do make… Should you ask see if there's any money. Even if you think there isn't, it doesn't hurt to ask. As I say, there's often hidden funding available. Maybe you need to ask a few different people.

And… Also, this question came up in the session earlier today.

3,500 US dollars is just a little too much right now if you don't have the funds for it.

We do also have the Researchers Writing Academy. This is our group program. It's a membership program.

Where you pay $97 per month And you get access to the journal publication formula. You get access to all the co-writing. We have accountability in there. We have planning workshops in there.

It's not private. You won't get any private feedback But if you are wanting a community, a super supportive, really lovely community honestly co-writing, you want to learn the process, you can still do that. Apply this on your own with some group session feedback if you want inside the researchers writing academy

Andrea, maybe could you also pop the Researchers writing academy link in the chat for people You can peruse if you feel like that's something.

Cool. Well, is there no other questions Thank you so much for joining me. This has been a blast.

And yeah, I… have a very lovely rest of your day, everyone. Happy Easter. If you're celebrating. I hope you have some days off at least.

We have a day off tomorrow and on Monday here in the Czech Republic. And if you have any questions whatsoever about submitted in eight weeks, please send them my way.

You know, any of the emails I've been sending you, you can just reply to them or I'm just going to pop my email address in the chat again.

Email us. We will be a little less available now during this long weekend, but we still check emails.

So we are happy to help. If you have any questions, if you're not quite sure is this right for me right now or not And yeah, thanks for coming. I really appreciate you all.

Lovely to meet you as well. Bye. That was the awkward time where I'm trying to find the exit button.