April writing challenge

[darkstarrynight]

Thanks for the cheers!

On the very lagging project, my new colleague pointed out to me yesterday after I posted that what I thought were completed spreadsheets of analyzed data, I had only finished "one tab" on a huge set of tabs within each sheet. I cracked up because I am that "off" lately, but at least I can attest that there is always more research and writing to do!

[Parasaurolophus]

Long marking day ahead, but I'd like to:

• Have a last look at my chapter and maybe send it off.
• Write another 200 or so words of the new paper.
• Start working on a referee report.

[hungry_ghost]

My plan for the week (measuring minutes instead of words since I'm at the revising, cutting, and reorganizing stage):

• Monday: 20 minutes on a timer, before noon
• Tuesday: 60 minutes on a timer
• Wednesday: 60 minutes on a timer, before noon
• Thursday: 45 minutes on a timer, before 1pm
• Friday: 45 minutes on a timer + plot the weekend

Only got to do 30 minutes today, and after 5pm (so much for my "before noon" fantasy) and what I wrote was word vomit, but I did it.

[Parasaurolophus]

Long marking day ahead, but I'd like to:

• Have a last look at my chapter and maybe send it off.
• Write another 200 or so words of the new paper.
• Start working on a referee report.

I've become tired, and have a number of further household chores to attend to, so I'm going to throw in the towel tonight. It was a very productive day and I put a large dent in my marking, so I don't mind not having worked on the new paper.

[Puget]

I got pulled into a last minute meeting for a grant application I'm involved in yesterday yesterday (reviews finally came and we are trying to do a revision in 2 weeks-- fun times!), and didn't end up getting to my writing task. But I did meet with another collaborator to plan a new paper, so I'm counting that as writing.

Today: at least 30 min. planning revisions on the long-neglected paper, for real this time.

[Parasaurolophus]

• 200 words or so of new paper
• half an hour on the referee report

[Parasaurolophus]

• 200 words or so of new paper
• half an hour on the referee report

600 words of the former, 808 of the latter. Whew!

[JCu16]

Fell off the wagon a little this week for writing, consumed by a deluge of hundreds of emails and a number of coding tasks for student requests and research. Definitely a crazy amount of writing done though, just none of that really productive.

So far today, managed to spend a solid half hour on writing this new proposal (578 words), while the other half wrote up an idea for a new experiment (449 words).

Yesterday I had meetings for a new large fieldwork proposal where I planned out the teams, meeting with a collaborator for a paper to help finalize toward writeup, so I think those two count as well based on the Puget standard ;)

[Morden]

I've been doing other stuff too this week. But back at it now. Goal this morning, remember where I was and write my way into logical next section,

[Morden]

I had a productive day slashing my way through the introduction.

[JCu16]

Managed to make a good start to the day with a solid 30 minute session. Net result of a page toward this newish paper (I have about 10 papers at various states of completion, hence I bounce around), hard to quantify as there was quite a bit of editing as well for this one.

Tasks for the rest of the half day:
Finish code for a graduate student.
Do some analysis for paper that just needs this one figure to be finished.
Finish a 2nd round paper review.
Work on minor revisions for a paper (a welcome smaller set after the responses to round one were no less than 40 pages!)

[JCu16]

Managed to make a good start to the day with a solid 30 minute session. Net result of a page toward this newish paper (I have about 10 papers at various states of completion, hence I bounce around), hard to quantify as there was quite a bit of editing as well for this one.

Tasks for the rest of the half day:
Finish code for a graduate student.
Do some analysis for paper that just needs this one figure to be finished.
Finish a 2nd round paper review.
Work on minor revisions for a paper (a welcome smaller set after the responses to round one were no less than 40 pages!)

2/4 done for the day. Shame I couldn't submit the review as the system went down, but its done, and ready to upload in the morning. Hoping to tackle the other two tomorrow.

[Parasaurolophus]

Have to take the ferry into town today, which will be a whole thing. So I'll unambitiously say:

• 200 words of referee report

[Parasaurolophus]

Have to take the ferry into town today, which will be a whole thing. So I'll unambitiously say:

• 200 words of referee report

791. Off I go!

[hungry_ghost]

My plan for the week (measuring minutes instead of words since I'm at the revising, cutting, and reorganizing stage):

• Monday: 20 minutes on a timer, before noon
• Tuesday: 60 minutes on a timer
• Wednesday: 60 minutes on a timer, before noon
• Thursday: 45 minutes on a timer, before 1pm
• Friday: 45 minutes on a timer + plot the weekend

Did not get to plot the weekend, which was spent in grading jail.
Now, for the coming week:

• Monday: 20 minutes of planning in the evening
• Tuesday: 60 minutes on a timer, before 2pm
• Wednesday: 60 minutes on a timer, before noon
• Thursday: 60 minutes on a timer, before noon*
• Friday: 2 hours! + plot the weekend

*Thursday: unless I am unable to talk my way out of stupid meeting, in which case it will be after noon