June writing challenge

[Parasaurolophus]

My other excitement is that I got the research award from my professional organization this year, but the conference was cancelled and therefore, my presentation. However, I was just offered the opportunity to present it as a webinar (which is a full hour rather than 15 minute slot at the conference) later this year. Woohoo!

Congratulations!

Let's try again:

• Touch up June Paper
• Touch up Book Proposal, add 300 words

June Paper is now done. I'll have to give it one last read-through and write an abstract before submitting it, but... oof! The lis tof references is particularly impressive, not least because I had to read almost everything on it since I knew virtually nothing about the topic before I started working on this paper!

I'll be working mostly to clear the proposal for the rest of this week, then it's back to July Paper!

[darkstarrynight]

Thanks for the kind words, Wahoo Redux and Parasaurolophus. I am really impressed with everyone's hard work and motivation over the summer.

[Parasaurolophus]

I have a heavy day of teaching obligations ahead, and just wasted four hours because my computer had a meltdown as I was recording a lecture. Sigh.

So my reduced expectations for today:

• Write June Paper's abstract.
• Fiddle with Book Proposal's organization.

[treeoflife]

Now that the current job s winding down and while I am sending application for law related positions I have time to write.
For the reminder of June here are the plans:

1. Finish corrections for chapter 1 & 2
2. Finishing going over primary sources for Chapter three
3. Write 15 pages for Chapter 3
4. Write a book review.

[Parasaurolophus]

I have a heavy day of teaching obligations ahead, and just wasted four hours because my computer had a meltdown as I was recording a lecture. Sigh.

So my reduced expectations for today:

• Write June Paper's abstract.
• Fiddle with Book Proposal's organization.

Abject failure due to the morning meltdown. I'll lick my wounds and do better tomorrow.

[darkstarrynight]

Today, my colleague sent me her edits to a third revision after she moved states/changed institutions. I cranked out my edits and sent it back to her before noon. She is going to review it and call me tonight. I am hoping to submit tomorrow (our fourth version for this journal). I hope we figured out how to best address reviewer concerns after a third revision.

I have been resistant to working on long neglected paper though I gave myself and my co-author an arbitrary deadline of the end of June to get this finalized and submitted to our target journal. I do not want to let myself down (or my colleague), so I better stop avoiding it for no reason!

[Parasaurolophus]

I have a heavy day of teaching obligations ahead, and just wasted four hours because my computer had a meltdown as I was recording a lecture. Sigh.

So my reduced expectations for today:

• Write June Paper's abstract.
• Fiddle with Book Proposal's organization.

Abject failure due to the morning meltdown. I'll lick my wounds and do better tomorrow.

Today: for to do better.

[traductio]

Can I count my crowd-sourced scam article as a sign of productivity? It has a certain solidity, the more I read it, in its own special way.

ETA: Heck, for that matter, can all the brilliant contributors count it as a sign of productivity? It's very much a shared success.

[mamselle]

I was just thinking that when I saw this thread, as well!!!

Yeah, I think we should.

Good thinking and teamwork went into that piece!

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

I have a heavy day of teaching obligations ahead, and just wasted four hours because my computer had a meltdown as I was recording a lecture. Sigh.

So my reduced expectations for today:

• Write June Paper's abstract.
• Fiddle with Book Proposal's organization.

Abject failure due to the morning meltdown. I'll lick my wounds and do better tomorrow.

Today: for to do better.

I did better this time.

Can I count my crowd-sourced scam article as a sign of productivity? It has a certain solidity, the more I read it, in its own special way.

ETA: Heck, for that matter, can all the brilliant contributors count it as a sign of productivity? It's very much a shared success.

Ha! Please!

[JCu16]

Got walloped through the end of last week with 2 proofs to deal with and a nightmare of an administrative task.
Have now finished up assisting with the editorial edits to a review paper.

Goal for this morning is working on revising a new co-author paper that wasn't on the list.

Crappy week again for various reasons - 2020 strikes again. But on the positive side, the long-awaited paper got favorable comments from coauthor and internal review and is ready for polishing. Half way through that new co-author paper.

[ergative]

Back in the April writing challenge I managed to get the high-performance computing cluster to start running parallel analysis scripts on a bunch of data because reviewers wanted a different optimization algorithm. Throughout much of May I was tweaking those results, and waiting the week+ it took for each analysis to finish. (It was a dark day when the last analysis finished running, but because of a typo in the script the results didn't get saved, and I had to start over.)

In June my goal is to finish revising the paper and send it off to coauthors, so they can give their feedback in July in time for the resubmisison deadline in August. This week I've just about finished up deciding on the new visulalizations and which patterns of the analysis* I want to present in the Results. Today I want to have a crack at the discussion section. Fortunately, the patterns that emerged with the new optimization algorithm did not vary too substantially from the patterns that emerged with the old algorithm, which is both encouraging for the robustness of the model we're using, and also useful for the ability to reuse large chunks of prose in the Discussion.

*It's largely an exploratory paper designed to present a new method and talk about the types of patterns and results it can uncover, so this isn't p-hacking to look at the data in a lot of different ways.

[Parasaurolophus]

Today:

• Go over June Paper and prepare it for final submission.
• If feeling brave, submit June Paper for the special issue it was designed for.
• Work on Book Proposal.

I want to clear the book proposal by early next week, so that I can get back to July Paper, a small pile of coauthored papers, and that other paper I was working on in April (whatever I was calling it--EDIT: Foggy Paper!). Plus I need to make a few small modifications to April's book chapter. I also just got an idea for a new short paper, which would be nice to write up...

[mamselle]

Papers are like kittens, they take over our lives...

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

• Go over June Paper and prepare it for final submission.
• If feeling brave, submit June Paper for the special issue it was designed for.
• Work on Book Proposal.