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. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.publishnotperish.net/s/publish-not-perish-the-podcast?utm_medium=podcast">www.publishnotperish.net</a>
Publish Not Perish
Claim This Podcastby Jenn McClearen, PhD
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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. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.publishnotperish.net/s/publish-not-perish-the-podcast?utm_medium=podcast">www.publishnotperish.net</a>
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Recent Episodes
July 24, 2026
The Case for Ordinary Writing Sessions | Ep. 48
<p>There’s a fantasy that circulates with writers, including academic writers, that writing has to feel meaningful, or clear, or inspired before it counts. Today I want to trouble this notion and instead present what I think is a more realistic version of what actually happens in a writing life.</p><p>Much of your writing days will be insignificant, banal, or feel like you are going in circles. Yet, when one writing session becomes the referendum on whether years of work on your book or article were worth it, the work is buried under all that weight, and we start requiring impossible conditions before we’ll let ourselves begin to write.</p><p>I talk through why “I don’t feel like writing” and “I can’t write today” are two different sentences, even though we treat them as the same one, and what it looks like to let a session be ordinary instead of steeped in ceremony.</p><p>To be clear, I’m not arguing that anyone should push through exhaustion, grief, or genuine distress, because there’s a difference between dealing with life stress and managing feelings about writing. I’m talking about the smaller, more common friction: boredom, the dread of opening the document, the sense that we’re not ready or clear enough yet. You don’t need inspiration to write. Instead, inspiration comes through the act of writing itself.</p><p>I walk through a few ways to shrink a writing session down to something you can start before you feel like it and why repeated, unglamorous contact with a project does more for it than waiting for the beautiful, spacious afternoon. I hope you find my musings useful!</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.publishnotperish.net?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">www.publishnotperish.net</a>
July 16, 2026
Your Writing Plan Is a Google Doc, Not a PDF
<p>Earlier this week, I wrote about <a target="_blank" href="https://www.publishnotperish.net/p/managing-that-mid-july-panic-2be"><strong>that specific mid-July stomach-drop:</strong></a> the moment you glance at the calendar and realize the semester is closer than the version of you who made summer writing plans in May could have ever imagined. And the writing you’d hoped to finish by now isn’t as far along as you’d hoped. </p><p>If that feeling found you, this episode is a continuation of that conversation, though it takes a different angle. </p><p>Rather than offering steps for getting back on track like the newsletter did, I want to shift how you think about the plan itself. This is the plan you built back when summer still existed as an idea rather than a lived, complicated season. </p><p>What would it mean to treat your summer writing plan less like a verdict on your seriousness as a scholar and more like a rough draft that has room for growth? </p><p>I’d contend that your plans weren’t wrong so much as incomplete. They didn’t account for how depleted you’d be after a punishing school year or the wedding and the visiting in-laws and the kid suddenly home from camp sick or the way “revise the chapter” turned out to be an entire ecosystem of rereading and restructuring rather than just one task. </p><p>In this episode, I make the case for treating your writing plan like a Google Doc instead of a PDF: something easily editable, something that absorbs what you’ve learned about your actual capacity rather than something you failed to live up to. </p><p>If your plan has gone quiet, this one’s for figuring out what it’s trying to tell you. And no, it’s not that you failed the plan; it’s that the plan didn’t account for your actual summer. </p><p>If you need help rebuilding that plan for what’s left of the summer, my 1:1 <a target="_blank" href="https://www.jennmcclearen.com/coaching"><strong>Writing Strategy and Structure Program</strong></a> could be your next step. </p><p></p><p>Related Content:</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.publishnotperish.net?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">www.publishnotperish.net</a>
July 9, 2026
Why "Originality" Is an Overblown Writing Goal | Ep. 46
<p>“Originality” is a small word carrying an enormous amount of weight in academic writing, and I think it causes a lot of undue angst.</p><p>We’re told our dissertations need it, our articles need it, our books need it, and somewhere along the way that reasonable expectation curdles into something much heavier, the sense that we need to produce an idea that has never existed in anyone’s mind before ours.</p><p>In this episode, I want to push back on that definition and offer something I find far more workable.</p><p>Scholarly originality is more often achieved by building on existing ideas that emerge through relationships, applying a familiar theory to an unfamiliar archive, or noticing and bringing to the forefront a pattern that everyone else has ignored.</p><p>A topic no one has studied is not the same thing as a contribution, and a well-trodden topic can still hold real insight if you’re asking a sharper question or reframing the stakes.</p><p>Give the episode a listen, and see whether relation, rather than invention, gives you a little more room in your quest for originality.</p><p></p><p>Related Content:</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.publishnotperish.net/p/reframing-the-desire-to-write-profoundly">https://www.publishnotperish.net/p/reframing-the-desire-to-write-profoundly</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.publishnotperish.net?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">www.publishnotperish.net</a>
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