Draft It! The Essential 10-Week Workshop

Did anyone teach you how to write a journal paper? Me neither.

Ten weeks, at your own pace, to turn what you know into a draft you can actually submit — starting with an hour where we build your roadmap, not mine.

Yes, build my roadmap

$197 through September 30, 2026. $249 starting October 1, 2026.

Payment plans available.

You know your research. That was never the hard part.

The hard part is the blank page, and the outline that was supposed to help but somehow makes it worse, and a folder of half-written sections that don't yet add up to a paper. Maybe your advisor told you to submit and you don't feel ready. Maybe you've been sitting on this data for a year, or three. Maybe you've started this draft before — more than once — and stalled in the same place both times.

None of that means you can't write this paper. It means nobody taught you how, and you've been improvising ever since.

Most writing instruction hands you a map.

One outline, one order of operations, built for whoever the course was designed for — which is rarely how you actually think.

That's why Draft It! starts before Week One. You get one hour with me, one on one, to find your actual guide rails and roadblocks — where you get stuck, how you work best, what "done" needs to look like for you — and we build your roadmap through the ten weeks around that. There's no one way to write a paper. You get to find yours and follow it.

What's inside

Your 1-hour roadmap session

One on one with me, before you start. We map your roadblocks, your working style, and your actual schedule onto the ten weeks ahead, so the plan fits you instead of the other way around.

A workbook

With exercises for each week, so you're always writing, not just watching.

A community discussion board

Where you can ask questions and see how other researchers are working through the same ten weeks.

Ten weeks of self-paced tutorials covering:

Getting started, and what to do about writing blocks before they stall you
The abstract — your paper's road map
Your core argument — the single most important thing to get clear
Structure — the foundation everything else sits on
The literature review — engaging the conversation your paper is joining
Methods, results, and discussion — how the three sections carry the evidence together
The conclusion — short, and about reconnecting, not repeating

Everything is available the moment you register. No waiting for modules to unlock.

Hello, I'm Jessica...

I spent seven years as an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, mentored 33 graduate students, co-authored 14 papers with them, and have published more than 25 peer-reviewed papers of my own. Nobody taught me how to write a journal paper either — I figured it out the slow way, and I built Draft It! so you don't have to.

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Your dedication to demystifying academic writing is transformative. Thank you for creating such an actionable resource!

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Wu Yimeng, PhD Student, Tongji University

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Jessica's most distinctive strength was her ability to see the skeleton of an argument even in a messy, unresolved draft. And my drafts were messy! I would have a wealth of ideas but struggled to give them shape and she had an almost instinctive sense of how a piece needed to be structured — what belonged where, what was missing, and what was quietly undermining the whole.

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Harpreet Kaur, Independent Researcher, Delhi

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I believe that academic publication is rarely a smooth journey for anyone, particularly for beginners from non-English-speaking countries. With her support, my work was able to be successfully published.

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Xu Huibo, PhD Candidate, Harbin Institute of Technology

This is for you if:

You have research — data, a study, an argument — and no draft yet, or a draft that stalled
You've never been taught how a journal paper is actually built, and you're tired of guessing
You work better with a plan built around you than a syllabus built for a stranger
English isn't your first language, or you're outside a traditional academic setting, and you're not sure the "normal" advice applies to you

This isn't for you if:

You want someone else to write the paper for you — I'll ask the questions that make the paper yours, not take it off your hands
You want live, ongoing check-ins built into the course itself — Draft It! is self-paced after your intake call, not a program with scheduled group sessions. If regular accountability is what you actually need, ask about my Write With Me sessions separately — they're not part of this course, but they exist.

Draft It!

The Essential 10-Week Workshop

Self-paced * Access anytime * NEW 1-hour roadmap session

Through September 30:

$197 USD

Starting October 1: $249

Ten weeks, at your own pace, to turn what you know into a draft you can actually submit — starting with an hour where we build your roadmap, not mine.

25% student discount * Request a code here