A new “pre-publication study” suggests that separating “Do I want to write this book?” from “Should I publish it?” could be an important principle for the literary world.
In pre-publication testing, an anorexia recovery memoir passed the test—not doing harm, and even doing good.
The experimental design involved clear “don’t publish” criteria: If there was a worsening in participants’ scores on the main clinical severity measure we used , and if that worsening was greater in the group reading the memoir than the group reading the control text, and if the effect size of the difference was large by a statistical definition . There was no expectation that the book should do good, only that it should not do demonstrable harm.
A very literal example of taking a pause comes from recovery coach Tabitha Farrar. Having kindly agreed to help with recruitment for the study, she created a YouTube video in which she mentioned having written a book about her own experience of anorexia. She had doubts about publishing it even while she was writing, and then she set the complete draft aside for six months before rereading it.
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