Research produces more questions than answers
One of the reasons it's hard to know when a specific piece of writing is good enough to submit for publication is that writing it will have generated new questions. Read the post here: https://jovane...
14 Jan 4min
Of Many Minds: An interview with Lee Skallerup Bessette
An interview with Lee Skallerup Bessette about the book Of Many Minds: Neurodiversity and Mental Health Among Faculty and Staff in Higher Education, which she has co-edited with Rebecca Pope Ruark. W...
12 Nov 20251h 19min
Focus isn't just a mind problem - Hannah de Keijzer
A guest post from Hannah de Keijzer, book coach and non-fiction editor, about recruiting your office space and physical habits to help you get into focus more quickly and work more effectively. Like ...
9 Okt 202511min
Optimizing Focus
Over the years I've written a lot about focus and distraction. This track introduces the collection of posts from my blog around this theme, with some new thoughts on the value of identifying the pro...
3 Okt 202511min
Make Your Manuscript Work: An Interview with Laura Portwood-Stacer
An interview with Laura Portwood-Stacer about her new book, Make Your Manuscript work. In March 2025 I wrote about the difficulty of writing a “shitty first draft” (JoVanEvery.co.uk/perfectionism-v...
12 Sep 20251h 5min
An advanced writing practice
Another yoga analogy. Sometimes the advanced practice is knowing that what your writing project needs is for you to go for a long walk and think about it... Read the post here: https://jovanevery.co.u...
15 Aug 20252min
Coming back to a neglected project
The first writing session working on a project you haven't worked on in a while is tough. In this track I talk about what kind of work might be involved in that session and how it can overcome the in...
15 Aug 20256min
What should you do next?
Do you have several writing projects, in various states of completion, that you *could* be working on? Are you overwhelmed by choice? Are you not working on any of them because you're not sure what yo...
15 Aug 20255min
