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#154 - How to Write and Submit a Paper in 30 Days

Jun 24, 2026
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Today, I am showing you how to write and submit a paper in 30 Days, using my 4-week sequence.

24 June 2026

Read time: 3 minutes


 

I have published more than 130 papers.

The ones I wrote in 30 days were no worse than the ones that took six months.

That surprises people. They assume faster means less rigorous.

It does not. It means fewer wasted hours staring at a half-finished introduction, rewriting the same opening for the fourth time, and waiting for a feeling of readiness that never shows up.

Here is what I rarely talk about: I once spent five months on a paper that got accepted with minor revisions.

The reviewer's feedback took me two days to address.

Five months of agonising, two days of actual fixes.

That was the moment I realised the problem was never the writing. It was the order.

Most papers do not take six months because the work needs six months.

They take six months because nobody gave you a structure to work inside. I am changing this today!

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