June writing challenge

[Puget]

Hello writers! I can't believe another month has slipped by. Time to start the June challenge-- post your goals, try to write at least 30 min every work day, and check in here for social support and cheerleading!

Today I FINALLY resubmitted long neglected paper. Don't know what the chances are (and it might get reviewed as new due to the long delay), but at least it is off my plate (and conscience) for the moment, and I do think the revisions make it stronger even if we have to go to a new journal.

This month:

1. Nag final 2 co-authors to sign off in preregistration of big collaborative project. Compile the data and do at least step 1 of the analyses and write them up (step 2 depends on getting some additional data from a co-author which they are still coding)

2. Finish preregistration for other collaboration. Get at least our part of the data ready to go. Stretch goal (dependent on collaborator lab getting us their data: run my part of the data analyses).

3. Continue to support/nag grad students along on their papers. Grad student #1 has three papers in various states of analysis and drafting, and grad students #2 and 3 each have one. I'm hoping each can submit at least one paper by the end of the summer.

[mamselle]

Is there a setting in which you could create a similar setup to this one for your grad students to support each other?

They might like that (and benefit from it).

You might, too!

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

The May Writing Challenge is dead! Long live the June Writing Challenge!

Month's goals:

• Finalize and submit June Paper (due in July).
• Write a draft of July Paper (due in late July).
• Finish and submit Book Proposal.
• Fix up and submit one other extant paper.

The last one's a bit of a stretch, but we'll see. I do anticipate having to put the final touches on a couple of positive verdicts (one came this morning, actually), so that'll eat up a bit of time, too.


Today's goals:

• 100 words of Book Proposal.
• 200 words of July Paper.
• Look at the comments that came with today's acceptance, and have a think.

[Puget]

Is there a setting in which you could create a similar setup to this one for your grad students to support each other?

They might like that (and benefit from it).

You might, too!

M.

Indeed, we do have such a group-- just finished our weekly meeting. For anyone interested, we use these excellent materials:
https://sarneckalab.blogspot.com

[Sun_Worshiper]

June goals:

• Finalize and submit paper to journal
• Make revisions to R&R and resubmit
• Make progress on other R&R (hope to resubmit in July or August)
• Make progress on paper with coauthors (hope to submit in July or August)

Reach goals (not priorities, but things that I could work on if everything else miraculously gets done ahead of schedule):

• Begin work on new project
• Complete IRB for project in development
• Figure out how to deal with rejected paper that I hate, with coauthor

[delsur]

Hi everyone,

First-timer on this thread here!

My goals in June are:

-journal article [submit mid July]
-literature review essay [submit mid July]

More long term summer goals are to research and re-write chapter 3.

Today, I wrote my first two paragraphs of the journal article. Not a lot but a start.

[nonsensical]

The news is exhausting and I am exhausted. I am co-editing a special issue of a journal with a colleague, and today I tried to draft our introduction to the special issue and just ... couldn't. I came up with some ideas and sent them to my colleague to see what he thinks, but I don't count that as actual writing. I did a few other research-related things as well, but no writing.

I currently have multiple e-mails in my inbox pertaining to my grant. My goal for tomorrow is to address the comments in those e-mails.

[Parasaurolophus]

Today's goals:

• 100 words of Book Proposal.
• 200 words of July Paper.
• Look at the comments that came with today's acceptance, and have a think.

I got in about 300 words of each, and don't really have to do anything to fix up the acceptance, so that's nice (R2's comments were the best I've ever had).

But it was really hard to get any work done today. I was just too disturbed by the news.

[darkstarrynight]

Today I FINALLY resubmitted long neglected paper. Don't know what the chances are (and it might get reviewed as new due to the long delay), but at least it is off my plate (and conscience) for the moment, and I do think the revisions make it stronger even if we have to go to a new journal.

Congrats! I just returned to long neglected paper now to get moving on it.
Yesterday I submitted the second revision of the manuscript that got the grumpy feedback last week! It was not due until June 27th but we got it done June 1st, yay! We should hear in a few weeks if it is accepted and it might be out in July-exciting!

Goals:

• Get moving on this neglected paper - perhaps get it wrapped up by the end of June!?
• Return to the draft manuscript for my grant project and add some words!

[Puget]

Good going darkstarrynight!

Today is a busy meeting day, but I'm going to try to get through all the tedious data prep work for some analyses I owe collaborators, and also spend at least an hour this evening on preregistration #2.

[Parasaurolophus]

Finished my teaching for today, so:

• Re-jig June Paper a little.
• 200 words of July Paper.

[Parasaurolophus]

Finished my teaching for today, so:

• Re-jig June Paper a little.
• 200 words of July Paper.

I also did a small spot of work on traductio's scammy ice cream paper because it was a welcome distraction, and we need to get that ball rolling.

[JCu16]

So here are my monthly goals - it is going to be a busy one. I'm on projects time this month, so will be working around these.

June Goals:
Finish and write a paper #1 based on recent analysis.
Finish a dataset paper #2
Assist graduate student #1 with new paper #3 writing and editing.
Assist MS student with writing first paper #4 on his recent work.
R&R a paper #5 that got reviewed but rejected at Science.
Short accessible piece highlighting a prior paper.
Write NSF Report for Grant.
Write report for the grad program I manage.

After that - tidy off another paper on my to do list of things I've started but not finished.

[Parasaurolophus]

A fair few other tasks need doing today, but once the teaching's over:

• Continue re-jigging June Paper

[Puget]

Today is a busy meeting day, but I'm going to try to get through all the tedious data prep work for some analyses I owe collaborators, and also spend at least an hour this evening on preregistration #2.

Of course the analyses I thought would take part of a day took two full days, but they are done and written up for the collaborators.
Tomorrow: finally get to preregistration #2, do at least 2 hours and see if we can get close to finished.