What counts as writing?

Hello darlings!

How the hell is everyone? No offense to March, but where the HELL did February go?!? You were just here bb and now you left us with MARCH?

I was recently asked: what do you count as writing?

Here's my list right now:

Writing

Reading new articles

Data cleaning

Plotting about to attend the first #MHAWS writing retreat (1 spot left!)

Opening a file on overleaf and staring at it for 15 fucking minutes

Goal setting

Finding code to make a fancy figure

Tracking down a new cite so you don't have to cite the asshole that everyone else cites

Fixing labels on that fucking figure

Brainstorming on a zoom call w coauthors

Reviewing an article that is directly relevant to one of your projects

Reviewing an article that isn’t directly relevant to one of your projects but gives you a great idea about framing

Reviewing an article that isn’t directly relevant but teaches you a lot about how to not write an article

Data analysis

Trying to fix labels on that figure, fucking it up, and going back to the original

Cursing a reviewer and then cursing myself when I figure out that they were right

Updating the table notes for 26 different tables in a book

Rereading an older article that you are *pretty sure* you remember but maybe not. Yep, definitely didn’t remember it.

Trying to find if a conference paper you saw in 2014 was every published, failing, and citing the conference paper

Thinking

Thinking about how you don't know shiiiit but you are going to keep trying

Thinking about your nemeses and how they suck

Considering how to take down the man

Getting an article formatted for submission

Looking up IRB project numbers

Going through your pre-submission checklist

Freaking out about submitting an article

Submitting an article

What writing can you do today?

XOXO

Mirya

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