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Meeting With Your Writing

Posts originally written to promote A Meeting With Your Writing. These address various issues that help you take the stress out of writing and get more writing done.

A Meeting With Your Writing is a virtual writing group. It runs in 12-week sessions. Registration opens about a month before a session starts and remains open until about 3 weeks into the session.

If you are interested and registration is not currently open, you can subscribe to my advance notice list. You'll get an email when the next session is open for registration.

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Reflections on 20 years of self-employment

Posted on April 23, 2025 by Jo VanEvery

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Reflections on 20 years of self-employment In April 2005, I found myself unemployed. April 2025 marks 20 years of self-employment. My approach (and my advice) is often to take stock of the context, look at the opportunities available, and pick something to try. As I said in a post […]

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Beyond accountability: co-working as support

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Jo VanEvery

When I started A Meeting With Your Writing, co-working groups for academics were practically unheard of Shut Up and Write didn’t exist yet. The most popular “accountability group” for academic writers, The Academic Ladder, didn’t include co-working. There is now a proliferation of options, both specifically for academics, and more generally. It is common to describe […]

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A Meeting With Your Writing: Acknowledgements

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Jo VanEvery

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of A Meeting With Your Writing, I’d like to properly and publicly thank those who helped make it happen.  I want to thank all the people who inspired me, taught me, and supported me as I developed A Meeting With Your Writing. There are others who have had […]

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10 Years of A Meeting With Your Writing!

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Jo VanEvery

 Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · 10 years of A Meeting With Your Writing! The 2nd Monday in September is the 10th anniversary of the first session of A Meeting With Your Writing! When I started it in 2012, there was one session per week at 10 a.m. Eastern on Mondays. You had to […]

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Spotlight On: Meaningfulness Matters

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Jo VanEvery

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Meaningfulness Matters: A Spotlight I have been supporting academics with research and writing in some way since 2005. It took several years for my business to evolve into what it is today, but one thing that has remained consistent is my belief that focusing on what matters to you […]

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Making Decisions: planning & scheduling

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Jo VanEvery

This post was originally written in February 2021 as a follow up to Planning Your Winter Semester and was shared in the Academic Writing Studio. It has been edited and divided into a series of shorter posts for ease of reading. The general principles—habits, routines, and default responses—are explained in the first post in the […]

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Why join the Studio in the summer?

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Jo VanEvery

You probably think of summer as the easiest time of year to focus on research and writing. You’ve probably been looking forward to it for months because of that. So why would you want to join the Studio? Some people who attend A Meeting With Your Writing regularly during the main part of the year, […]

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Spotlight On: Just Enough Structure

Posted on June 5, 2021 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Spotlight On: Just Enough Structure Too much, or too little? Structure is a constant struggle for me. With no structure, I drift without focus and don’t accomplish much of anything. Too much structure and I resist. I spend more time fighting the structure than doing the thing I need […]

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Introducing: The Academic Writing Studio

Posted on June 2, 2021 by Jo VanEvery

The Beginning When I started A Meeting With Your Writing back in September 2011, I didn’t even know if it would work. All I knew was that virtual accountability and community was needed, and that I was prepared to facilitate something that might help. Now, it feels central to everything I do. Participants have told […]

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The work you wish you didn’t have to do

Posted on November 29, 2018 by Jo VanEvery

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · The work you wish you didn’t have to do Something that a couple of members shared at the end of A Meeting With Your Writing session reminded me of an important point. Sometimes the reason you think you’ve not accomplished much (in your writing, or in your work in […]

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The impact of time available on your focus

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Jo VanEvery 2 Comments

In Focus: 3 elements to consider, I outlined three elements that affect your focus during a writing session: the task itself, how you are feeling, and the context. This article is updated from one published 21 April 2014 to connect it more clearly to that framework. I use the term “optimize” purposefully. Your goal is […]

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Accountability vs Community

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Jo VanEvery

I’ve been reading Rowena Murray‘s Writing in Social Spaces, and it has helped me articulate something that underpins a lot of my work. Community is important to your ability to do this work. This got long, if what you really want are suggestions for creating writing community, jump here. When I talk about A Meeting […]

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