Aug 4, 2026 · 18 min · 9 segments
What do you do with those writing projects that keep hanging around in your publication pipeline, but you never work on them? I call these Zombie Projects, and they are holding you back from…
Kathy MazakHost
hello hello and welcome back to the academic writing amplified podcast i'm your host kathy mazak and i've got a good one for you today so today i'm going to talk to you about a new concept that i introduced inside of my navigate program when i taught it live in may and this is a concept that i developed as part of my quest to really figure out why projects get stuck.
Why do writing projects get stuck? So last week on the podcast, if you haven't heard last week's episode, it was also a new concept that I developed from this same question and it is called transition friction.
It comes from the world of management and project management and stuff like that, but I've never used it before.
And I don't think that I haven't found evidence of people using it to refer to academic papers.
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hello hello and welcome back to the academic writing amplified podcast i'm your host kathy mazak and i've got a good one for you today so today i'm going to talk to you about a new concept that i introduced inside of my navigate program when i taught it live in may and this is a concept that i developed as part of my quest to really figure out why projects get stuck.
Why do writing projects get stuck? So last week on the podcast, if you haven't heard last week's episode, it was also a new concept that I developed from this same question and it is called transition friction.
It comes from the world of management and project management and stuff like that, but I've never used it before.
And I don't think that I haven't found evidence of people using it to refer to academic papers.