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Creating a Satisfying Academic Career with Jo Van Every

I help academics build their confidence to do the work they find meaningful and find the time to do it.

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Creating a Satisfying Academic Career with Jo Van Every

Thoughts on accountability, deadlines, and goals

January 14, 2026 • Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide

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Some thoughts on how and why you might use accountability, deadlines, and goals to motivate you to write. I include excerpts from some responses to these thoughts by Pat Thomson and Rachael Cayley.

My goal in publishing this is to help you reflect on your own practices and adjust them so that you open up the possibility for joy in your writing as well as getting the writing done that you want and need to do.

Read the Pat Thomson post: https://patthomson.net/2015/07/02/accountability-and-academic-writing/

Read the Rachael Cayley post: https://explorationsofstyle.com/2015/06/25/productivity-an-ethical-response/

Read my full thoughts on this here: https://jovanevery.co.uk/accountability-deadlines-goals/

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