Jo van Every – How do I know when my book is ready to submit?

Some good advice here – and not just for new authors.

There are a lot of other Writing and Publishing posts and links on this site – several linking to other people’s suggestions, and a few pieces by me about different parts of the process. As I say there: “The standard disclaimer – people work in different ways, and no one system or suggestion will suit everyone. But there might be some things in here which are useful for others.”

I am doing a session on writing practices for PhD researchers at Warwick later this year, with a colleague who works in a very different way to me. The point being is not to say you should do this – but that different approaches can each yield results that work for someone, and discussing a variety of practices might be useful. Or, as the title of the open access book Suzanne Conklin Akbar edited, and to which I contributed says How we Write – not How to write.