May Research Thread

[Parasaurolophus]

My R&R, which I resubmitted in January (or was it February?), has been accepted, pending some hefty pruning for a strict word limit. I'm surprised--R1 loathed it, and thought I got something important completely bass ackwards (I didn't).

So today, it's the translation quota and some de-anonymizing and pruning.

[darkstarrynight]

My R&R, which I resubmitted in January (or was it February?), has been accepted, pending some hefty pruning for a strict word limit. I'm surprised--R1 loathed it, and thought I got something important completely bass ackwards (I didn't).

So today, it's the translation quota and some de-anonymizing and pruning.

Congrats! Last night I submitted all Spring grades then cranked out a chapter proposal. I submitted it around 1 AM and when I woke up, the book editor already had invited me to submit a full chapter by 6 AM! I am hopefully going to submit another proposal or two with my spouse next week for the same book.

[Parasaurolophus]

So today, it's the translation quota and some de-anonymizing and pruning.

My bibliography put me 1000 words over the count. Today, I cut 600 words. Unfortunately, the journal wants both a bibliography and a full citation for every footnoted reference. So I need to cut another ~1400 words... 0_o

[Parasaurolophus]

Translation quota and at least some token cuts today.

[Parasaurolophus]

Translation quota and at least some token cuts today.

Cut 100.

[Parasaurolophus]

Quota today, and should keep writing June Paper before I lose steam. Token cuts would be good, too.

[sinenomine]

After a sustained bout of writing, I got an article submitted a day before the deadline. Now it's time to dig into research for a conference paper that I've been looking forward to. However, before that is a celebratory and large glass of wine.

[Parasaurolophus]

Quota today, and should keep writing June Paper before I lose steam. Token cuts would be good, too.

Wrote a tiny bit, and cut about 100 words (and formatted the bibliography; alas, the notes require full citations, so that will undo all of my hard cutting work.

[Parasaurolophus]

Still just translating and cutting today.

[Parasaurolophus]

Still just translating and cutting today.

Somehow found 432 more words to cut. And wrote ~200.

[Parasaurolophus]

I'll do my translating, then start plugging full references into the accepted paper's notes, to see how much more needs cutting.

[Parasaurolophus]

I'll do my translating, then start plugging full references into the accepted paper's notes, to see how much more needs cutting.

Did the translating, and formatted the bibliography so that I can copy/paste it for the notes. Why on earth is the formatting for the notes and the bibliography so different? Sigh.

[Parasaurolophus]

Today I'll plug the note references in and watch the word count balloon back out of control. And translate my bit.

[Parasaurolophus]

Today I'll plug the note references in and watch the word count balloon back out of control. And translate my bit.

I managed to cut a further 300 words, but the doubling of the references means I should ideally find another 300 or so. Ugh. That'll be, like, 2000 words cut from a paper that was only 8500 long to begin with.

I also got an R&R from a specialist journal I otherwise can't seem to crack. So that's nice. The revisions, though minor in terms of content, sound like a headache.

[Parasaurolophus]

Translating, per usual, plus maybe some cutting and ideally a little writing for the June paper. I suppose I should ask when the deadline for that is, exactly.