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We have our new board! Calling all cademics/aspiring academics/fed-up academics - come and chat!

I've procrastinated lots and lots too but I've also thought lots and worked out who to contact and googled who's in charge of data banks and all sorts. Reasonably productive really

Today I
...finished first draft of a paper (I think it's weak, but Prof boss1 really likes it ). He usually thinks of something clever to do with data, at least.

...finished final draft of another paper for circulating to coauthors for final comments before submission (Prof boss2 also likes better than I like it).

Had 2 papers accepted in last 3 weeks. After a publication desert of 21 months, mind.
Pleased with self :)

MedSchoolRat Well done!

I haven't done anything interesting apart from lecturing and contemplating with dread the marking of assignments.

I want to do something interesting. I'm waiting to hear about one paper that the editors like but want some changes. I want to do them now! I want something different from mind-numbing activities!

Christ it's only the first week of teaching.

Wow so four papers in a month or two! Amazing

Wow at the four papers! I am getting geared up for teaching next week (new job). I have a research day at home tomorrow so plans to talk to a colleague re PhD studentship application.

Just joining in a bit late too as just found this. Love the common theme of procrastination - I posted about this earlier in the summer and got some good tips, which worked for me for a while, but sadly it's just too easy for me to fall back into the 'dark playground'. To the extent that I now have a very over due book chapter and a journal article that need to be finished in the next 10 days.

Here's the link to my thread on procrastination, in case it's of interest www.mumsnet.com/Talk/higher_education/2416378-Academics-how-to-stop-being-a-procrastinator

thanks for the Kudos :).

I just worked out that I could end up with 9 papers coming out in a 9 month period. I'd be 1st Author on 6 of those, too.

What I really want to get to grips with is grant writing, though. I've got a little plan brewing there....

I'm an RA, btw, not lecturer. Hence why I have time to research & publish!

God city dweller I am you

I like what I've read about pomodoro. Do you do 25 work - 5 break on repeat or ever have a longer break?

I was being quite good before. These days I'm doing 25 mins work followed by about 4 hrs fannying around...

a kindred spirit

I really annoy myself

I'm not too sure what a critical consciousness is, buffy, I think I need to have a quick Google. I'd love to master the art of academic vocabulary, I sometimes think that's a stumbling block to me.

Re procrastinating, I take ages to get into the zone. I've taken next week off work with all good intentions of not frittering away 10 days. Should I just lock myself upstairs until I've written the rest of my paper, no Web access whatsoever ? I've spent 3 months on the background section, and it's starting to depress me!

Hello all! May I update and canvas advice?

So the paper I mentioned on page 2 has been accepted and I just need to do a final check and get it back to be out in Spring - hurrah! I'm a very baby academic, and excited about this.

The other thing I've been working on, has been an ongoing albatross for a while. It kind of sums up my overall project and approach, so there feels a lot at stake.

Buoyed up by acceptance of paper one, I had notions of trying it with the big name journal in my field. Let's call it The People's Journal of Judaea. This journal is hard to get into, but you're kind of made if you do - but rumour has it they don't always read 'blind', and if they don't, I'm probably screwed.

I've heard that another journal, let's call it The Judaean People's Journal is low on submissions atm. They have an impressive editorial board, but are less prestigious than the PJP - they do turn around submissions quickly, but their articles are less widely available than those in the PJP or the one I've just been accepted for (let's call it the Judaean Journal). But - REF. It would count. It might be safer. It might be sooner.

That said, of course, possibly neither would want it anyway. And then that would be really depressing.

Any thoughts?

In our field we have a public archiving server where people tend to stick their papers before they are published, so I would not even consider the availability issue - not sure if it's the same with yours? The institutional archive apparently gets round REF requirements. Or something.

So in that case I would so for the safer but less prestigious one if the editorial board is respectable. But I'm a bit just-get-it-out-of-the-way once a thing is done ... (Though strangely enough that's not my approach to cake ...)

I looked at the secondlanguage blog thing. That's so not how I write!

I'd go for the pjj. No guts no glory!

Thanks guys - I'm not sure how quick the PJJ are in rejections, so I'll try to find that out. Not sure who to ask for advice - there's certainly no-one else who'd benefit particularly either way, though...

I like 'no guts no glory'!

Ok - this quite helpful forum seems to suggest PJJ are swift in response. What they say about the JJ rings true to my experience, so I have some confidence in this.

That language blog is completely different to how I write but I really really like the idea. It sounds like a very good way of disciplining myself - I often write paragraphs with no clear point