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Developing a Practice

Image of person at a desk writingYour academic life is more than a string of articles published, classes taught, and meetings attended. You write because this is how you articulate and develop your ideas. You publish to communicate those ideas to others. Posts in this category help you develop the practices you need to do the work you love well without burning out or compromising your values.

You Need a Writing Practice is a good place to start to investigate the Writing subcategory.

Juggling 101: Elements of a good plan is a good place to start investigating the Planning subcategory.

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Communicating manuscript edits

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Communicating manuscript edits I received a Tweet asking whether I had written anything about managing manuscript edits. I have a class available that helps with the emotional aspects of that process, and leads you through the process of making decisions (Dealing with Reviewer Comments, available in January for purchase, […]

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Managing Manuscript Edits

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Jo VanEvery 2 Comments

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Managing manuscript edits I received a Tweet asking whether I had written anything about managing manuscript edits. You need to figure out how to manage the work involved in revising the manuscript once you’ve made those decisions. And you’ll need to write a letter to the editor when you […]

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Practicing what I preach

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

I tell you to take a vacation. I am taking a vacation. My daughter and I are headed to Niagara to visit with my parents and see a bunch of plays at the Shaw Festival. I’ll be back in the office on Monday September 15th. I have arranged for someone to lead A Meeting With […]

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Are you resisting routine?

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

During last Thursday’s Meeting, one participant commented that she’d noticed an interesting benefit of A Meeting With Your Writing. Like so many of us, J is prone to changing her schedule a lot. This means making decisions about whether to write now or to do some other thing on the big list of important stuff. A Meeting […]

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Turn Summer Writing Plans into Autumn Writing Plans

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

In the post about Summer Writing Plans I suggested that you don’t necessarily want to finish things in the summer, but rather get them to the point where what remains can be done during a busy term. One of my objectives in writing that post was to help you set yourself up for writing in term time, something […]

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Are you tempted to binge write for the last few weeks of the break?

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

I’ve written before about the mis-use of the term “binge writing”. I don’t just mean writing for long periods of time, which is what you’ve probably been doing all summer. I mean binging: Are you tempted to push yourself beyond what you know from experience is the optimum amount of writing you can do well […]

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Flexibility, autonomy, and boundaries

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

One of the things you love about academic work is the flexibility and the autonomy. You don’t have to be in the office at 9 a.m. every morning. You don’t even have to be in the office every day. In theory you could take Wednesday off to go for a nice long hike and then work […]

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Are you taking long weekends?

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

We all get long weekends sometimes, though for different reasons. It seems that a lot of holidays that used to float are now observed on a Monday in order to make it a long weekend. I know a lot of academics have a hard time regularly taking 2-day weekends. I’m betting long weekends are even […]

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Doing what you want to do

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

At the beginning of every session of A Meeting With Your Writing I used to ask participants to make a list of all the writing/research projects that they consider active. I then asked them which one of those they most want to work on during the next 90 minutes. It might be the one that would be most […]

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When your work doesn’t look like work

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

You’re tired of the popular misconception that academics get the whole summer off. Are you letting that public perception affect how you work? Are you working indoors at your desk? Are you working during “normal working hours”? Are you avoiding the hammock? The patio? The dock? Are you saving gardening, long walks in the woods, and […]

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Confidence must come from within

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Confidence must come from within It’s easy to think that external validation will help build your confidence. Getting that paper accepted. Getting that grant. Having someone more established in your field cite your work or compliment you on it. It won’t. Like Groucho Marx, who famously would not want […]

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Summer Writing plans

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Jo VanEvery 1 Comment

I was talking to a client about her summer plans. She wants to get a lot of stuff written this summer. She has lots of data. She wants to apply for a grant in about 18 months time. And heck, she finds it hard to write during term time and wants to prioritize that over […]

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