Provide Additional Support for Your Writers

TAA offers three online writing programs designed to support writing efforts:
The TAA Writing Gym, Writing Gym: Heavy Lifters, the Month of Motivation, and a Textbook Development Course.

TAA Writing Gym

Give your writers the opportunity to flex their writing muscles in the TAA Writing Gym! This 6-week work-out-on-your-own gym time serves as their accountability partner as they work to achieve their writing goals.

Participants can join any and all Gym cycles offered during your membership year (typically three).

The program includes:

  • Six on-demand writing classes
  • Weekly inspirational emails
  • Templates for tracking writing and developing a six-week workout plan
  • Several writing stationsthat allow faculty to target specific writing areas
  • A discussion group for networking with other participants.

TAA Writing Gym: Heavy Lifters

Give your faculty the opportunity to flex their writing muscles in the TAA Writing Gym: Heavy Lifters! This 6-week work-out-on-your-own gym time serves as your faculty's writing accountability partner as they work to achieve their writing goals.

Participants can join any and all Gym cycles offered during your membership year (typically three).

This 6-week program includes everything from the TAA Writing Gym, plus:


"I already work daily on my writing, but the Writing Gym motivated me to move from the broad "anything that moves the manuscript forward" to "get words on the page", and I saw a real jump in my word count!" Tineke D'Haeseleer

"I loved the writing gym. It helped me get on track with my writing. The videos and short articles helped me with goal setting, organization, writing tips, etc. I highly recommend participating in the writing gym.” - Leslie Koberna

Month of Motivation

Help your academic writers accomplish their goals by focusing on two areas of academic writing that many authors tend to struggle with - isolation and accountability. 

Participants can join any and all months offered during your membership year.

This program includes:

  • Daily email messages containing motivation, encouragement, and resources to advance their writing efforts
  • The opportunity to participate in multiple 30-minute virtual Writing Accountability Sessions each week
  • A time tracking template to log daily writing progress, review weekly progress, and track writing progress over time
"After so many ups and downs over the past year, the Month of Motivation program helped me focus again on writing projects and establishing a consistent writing practice. Even though I am generally productive, I find the group writing sessions to be extremely helpful. I put the appointments on my calendar and did my best to show up. I noticed that my motivation increased after each session and I wanted to keep writing. I looked forward to the 3 times a week sessions. Great service, TAA!" Julie Combs

"Any writer that's serious about producing content should try one Month of Motivation. I produced more content on days that I attended group sessions, I felt motivated beyond group sessions and saw an increase in my writing productivity. I've already signed up for next month's Month of Motivation and you should too!" - Krystal Williams 

Textbook Development Course

Have a group of authors who need guidance in writing their first textbook? TAA's online course, Writing and Developing Your College Textbook, covers everything they need to be successful.

Includes access for one full year.

Based on an 11-chapter section of Writing and Developing Your College Textbook: A Comprehensive Guideby former publisher, author and textbook editor Mary Ellen Lepionka, this self-paced course will empower authors to undertake textbook development by guiding them through the nuts and bolts of the development process. 


Participants of these programs also receive a one-year TAA membership. View member benefits.


How it works:

  • Purchase one or all of the above programs. One program is $1,500, two programs is $2,000, and three programs is $3,000. 
  • We provide you with a promotional email template and handle all sign ups through our site.
  • You receive a list of your participants anytime you'd like.
  • Participants receive access to the program through our platform.
  • To purchase a writing program, contact Kim Pawlak at [email protected].

"Writing and publishing are significant parts of our professional lives in an academic environment. However, writing is often a very isolated endeavor and we don’t have opportunities to talk about the process, our struggles, or how to get feedback from readers within and outside our own departments. For this reason the Center for Faculty Excellence at TWU partnered with TAA. We are now in our 7th year and faculty are very appreciative of having access to TAA resources, webinars, and Writing Gyms that make for a fruitful exchange of ideas across the disciplines and organizational boundaries."

- Jörg Waltje, Executive Director, Center for Faculty Excellence, Texas Woman's University