Hosted by Jenn McClearen, PhD · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 43 episodes
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Publish Not Perish is the podcast for scholars who want to write more—without burning out. Host Dr. Jenn McClearen shares practical tips, honest reflections, and real stories to help you make steady, meaningful progress on your writing with more ease, clarity, and joy. www.publishnotperish.net
Jenn McClearen, PhD hosts Publish Not Perish, a education show with 43 episodes published.
There is a version of peer review preparation that looks more like fortification. You revise and revise, patch every gap you can anticipate, and submit hoping that reviewers will find nothing to critique. And, believe me
Most of us know our work needs a strong significance claim, but actually writing one can feel surprisingly difficult. I doubt that’s simply because writers don’t understand their projects. Often, it’s because we’ve been
In today’s episode, I’m reflecting on what a year of lifting heavy weights has taught me about writing. When I first started working with genuinely heavy weights, I realized that the hard part was not only physical. My b
In my newsletter this week, I explained why I almost never start any sort of writing project with an outline. It’s simply because I’m much more of an explorer-writer than an architect-writer: I usually need to move throu
Over the last two weeks, I’ve been interrogating the hustle culture embedded in the sprint toward tenure and the broader culture of busyness in academia. You can access those posts here: Today’s episode asks what happens
In today’s episode, I talk about why academic conclusions so often feel flat to write and what shifts when we stop treating them as simple summaries. For a long time, I thought the conclusion’s job was just to restate wh
For years, I had a Sunday-night ritual that felt practical but was quietly keeping me stuck. I would scan the week ahead looking for the kind of writing time I thought counted: long, uninterrupted stretches where I could
In this episode, I talk about what’s really going on when you keep missing writing deadlines you set for yourself. I want to make a distinction that matters: a missed deadline is not proof that you’re incapable of follow
What if the collapse of your writing routine is not evidence that you lack discipline but a sign that the system was never built for the realities of your life? In this episode, I explore why so many scholars blame thems
Earlier this week, I wrote about the structural roots of perfectionism and argued that perfectionism is a strategy for surviving in environments where the cost of imperfection feels dangerously high…[Furthermore,] perfec
The moments that stall a book often look…reasonable. They look like being diligent: reorganizing notes, refining the outline, and doing just one more round of reading so you can feel ready. In this episode, I talk about
If you’ve been reading Publish Not Perish for a while, you know I spend a lot of time thinking about sustainable writing practices, the emotional landscape of academic writing, and how we make meaningful progress on long
How many writing projects are you holding in your head right now—like, actively holding—not just the one on your desk, but all the others tugging at you in the background? In this episode, I’m talking about the hidden co
Today I’m unpacking a piece of advice that sounds simple—and sometimes even motivating—but often leaves scholars feeling worse when it doesn’t work: “Just sit down and write.” If you’ve ever tried to follow that instruct
In this episode, I’m sharing a shift that quietly changes everything for a lot of academic writers: moving from seeing writing as just a skill you perform to recognizing it as a relationship you live inside over time. So
There’s a particular kind of grief that comes with deleting pages you fought to write. In this episode, I talk about why that feeling is so common when you’re turning a dissertation into a book and what it reveals about
If revising your dissertation for a book feels harder than you expected, there’s nothing wrong with you or your project. In this episode, I talk about why dissertation writing trains you into very specific habits—and why
In today’s episode, I talk about a part of writing that academic training rarely asks us to examine: how writers actually move through their work. We’re taught to evaluate arguments, evidence, and outcomes—but much less
Greetings, dear listeners! January has a way of making us feel like we should already have our writing plans figured out—clear goals, steady discipline, and a strong start. Sound familiar? In this episode, I want to gent
Today I’m sharing the story of “Fatima”—a composite of so many scholars I’ve worked with over the years (and, honestly, a little bit of me too). Her dissertation sprint “worked.” She finished, defended, and landed a facu
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