“… I benefited from all of the offerings I participated in and the writing practices I learned about. Being in a field known for bad writers and yet having to produce quality writing has been a challenge. I felt like I had little support from my department, committee, and advisor to help me learn how to be a good academic writer. CSU Writes was able to fill that gap for me. I think the sense of community resulting for discussions with others in the workshops, retreat, and writing groups were extremely helpful. The workshops and retreats really helped me to look at writing as a practice, which allowed me to give myself permission to try different approaches to see what worked best for me. I also cannot say enough about how helpful “show up & write” was for helping me to move forward with my writing. Having a neutral space away from the distractions at my office was really helpful in getting me to spend my writing time actually writing. It also really helped me to regularly schedule my writing because I could treat it as I would a class.”