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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June 11, 2026
The Consistent Writer Is Not the One Who Never Gets Sidetracked | Ep. 42
<p>Most of us are carrying around a definition of consistency that is quietly working against us. The image that forms when I say the word to the academics I coach is almost always the same: the writer who rises at 5am, never misses a session, has color-coded their calendar down to the fifteen-minute block, and produces words every single day through sheer discipline. It’s the ideal image of the productive scholar.</p><p>In this episode, I want to gently dismantle that image, because I don’t think it is consistency at all. I think it is a fantasy. And I think most of us have spent a significant amount of time feeling like failures in relation to a standard that was never real to begin with.</p><p>My definition of consistency, arrived at after years of coaching writers and also after years of being a writer who has stared at a blank document wondering how I ended up there again, is this: </p><p>Consistency is not sticking to a writing routine perfectly and never getting off track. It is the commitment to return as soon as you can.</p><p>That distinction matters more than it might seem at first. I spend time in this episode on the difference between avoidance disguised as busyness and genuine overwhelm that requires triage, because those two things feel different from the inside, even when they look similar from the outside. </p><p>I also return to a metaphor I find myself coming back to again and again with clients: the meditation analogy. A meditation practice is not about achieving uninterrupted focus. It is about noticing when your mind has wandered and bringing it back, without drama, without self-flagellation. </p><p>Writing consistency works the same way. Returning to your desk after three weeks away carrying a backpack full of shame is not actually productive. The punishment is just another obstacle between you and the sentence.</p><p>What I most want you to take from this episode is permission to come back without the accumulated weight of the time you were away. The practices and the structure still matter. And the interruption is not a failure; it is just an interruption. Regardless of the detour, the destination was always there. </p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Publish Not Perish at <a href="https://www.publishnotperish.net/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">www.publishnotperish.net/subscribe</a>
June 4, 2026
Peer Review Is Not a Verdict | Ep. 41
<p>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. </p><p>And, believe me, I understand that impulse completely. When your book is bound up with tenure, promotion, years of accumulated work, and your sense of whether you actually belong in this field, critique can stop feeling like feedback and start feeling like a verdict.</p><p>But peer review was never designed to tell you whether you are a real scholar or whether your project deserved to exist. It is diagnostic. It shows what is working, what has not yet come clear on the page, and what the project might need in order to become what it is trying to be.</p><p>In this episode, I also get into something harder: how to work with feedback that feels frustrating, unfair, or even hostile, without either collapsing under it or dismissing it out of hand. Not every reviewer is right. Not every suggestion should be followed. </p><p>But even a poorly framed or seemingly off-base comment can sometimes be pointing at something real—a problem of scope, audience, framing, or significance that the reviewer couldn’t quite name, but you, once you stop wincing, might be able to see.</p><p>The approach I want to emphasize here is about treating reviewer feedback as information rather than punishment, so you can sort through it with more steadiness and judgment than the first raw read usually allows. In the end, the goal of peer review is to come through it with a clearer, stronger, more intentional book—and with a little more trust in your own capacity to receive hard things and keep writing anyway.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Publish Not Perish at <a href="https://www.publishnotperish.net/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">www.publishnotperish.net/subscribe</a>
May 28, 2026
Why Your Book's “So What” Feels So Vulnerable | Ep. 40
<p>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 trained as scholars to be careful, qualified, and intellectually humble, while the “so what” asks us to do something much more exposed: to say, clearly and confidently, that our work matters.</p><p>In today’s episode, I’ll walk through why significance often crystallizes late in the writing process, why vagueness can feel protective, and how to think about the “so what” as something your book makes possible rather than just a gap it fills. </p><p>My hope is that this episode helps you stop treating an elusive significance claim as evidence that something is wrong with your project. Sometimes the "so what" is already there, threaded through the work, waiting for you to see it clearly enough to name it and feel confident enough to claim it. </p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Publish Not Perish at <a href="https://www.publishnotperish.net/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">www.publishnotperish.net/subscribe</a>
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