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Learning How to Write & Publish

What Lifting Heavy Things Taught Me About Writing | Ep. 39
Why writing gets stronger when we learn to stay with difficulty
 • Jenn McClearen, PhD
10:39
You Don’t Have to Start with an Outline Either | Ep. 38
How explorer-writers can move from messy discovery to clear academic structure
 • Jenn McClearen, PhD
14:31
Why I Never Start with an Outline
For explorer-writers who need to discover ideas before they can organize them
 • Jenn McClearen, PhD
Rethinking the Academic Conclusion | Ep. 36
Let's talk about writing a better ending.
 • Jenn McClearen, PhD
10:05
Your Book Doesn't Need to Revolutionize Your Field | Ep. 31
On the fear that your ideas aren't new enough—and the impossible standard behind it
 • Jenn McClearen, PhD
14:09
The Book-Writing Progress You Keep Ignoring
Why the work before the "real writing" is the real writing
 • Jenn McClearen, PhD
Revision Isn’t Editing. It’s Thinking.
Why returning to your draft isn't evidence of failure—it's evidence of learning
 • Jenn McClearen, PhD
Why I Don’t Tell Scholars to “Just Sit Down and Write” | Ep. 28
A gentler and more effective alternative
 • Jenn McClearen, PhD
12:32
Lighthouse Thinking: Writing for Readers, Not Reputation
Moving from self-conscious to reader-focused writing
 • Jenn McClearen, PhD
The Dissertation-to-Book Series: Everything in One Place
Paid subscribers receive a special downloadable resource
 • Jenn McClearen, PhD
Letting Go of the Writing That Got You Here | Ep. 26
How to cut dissertation writing in service of a book
 • Jenn McClearen, PhD
11:44
Trained Not to Trust Ourselves
How graduate school shapes dissertation writing and haunts the book
 • Jenn McClearen, PhD
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