Anyone else labouring to get a paper(s) done before term starts? I have this one particular Paper. I started it with my co-author last summer thinking - oh yeah - we can get this submitted by Xmas. Well, we got about half a draft done, then with teaching and all that it sadly died. But this summer we made a plan to get it done. So I have to get a complete first draft to M this Friday. Then M will bat it back to me mid Sep. Then 2 more exchanges and submit Oct before it dies again. I'm at 8K words and limit is 9 so looks like it will be the right kind of length for my target.
It was my baby - but sitting trying to finish it this week feels like I'm having my finger nails pulled out. Just needs the final section, organise the refs and 2-3 figures. But things keep popping up - other page proofs, reviews, relatives coming from overseas, pg students in distress.
And if one more person asks me how I'm enjoying my long summer 'holiday' I will slap them.