InaDWriMo: week 1 results

I'm writing generating some really cool looking-figures, thanks to my l33t IDL skillz. Up to 1784 words of scripts. But it doesn't count toward InaDWriMo. Which means I'm sadly behind on making my target of 12K words.

Making figures is very distracting: you can play around forever with changing the font or getting just the the right scale or placing the labels just so or getting that exact shade of blue. I need to get back to dumping words on the page.

Have I mentioned that I really hate writing papers?

Ups and Downs

+I continue to write Awesome scripts.  Up to 1339 words of IDL.

-It doesn't count toward InaDWriMo.

-And I haven't written any further text yet.

+I feel pretty good about the job applications I turned in last week.

-I think my various advisors and mentors are subtly suggesting that I'm not cut out for research.  But maybe I'm just projecting.

And because I want to end on positive note:

+Peach-blueberry cobbler is yummy.

Election day

I voted today! Did you? I got to the polls about half an hour after they opened, and waited in line about 30-40 minutes. I've never seen lines that long for an election there before. Hopefully the PTA bake sale will make a killing, I have a vested interest in it. :)

On the InaDaWriMo front, I haven't done any more writing since yesterday, unless the 574 words in my IDL script counts. Ah well, I won't count it, even though my script is Awesome and is very necessary for the analysis I'm doing.

Ready, set, write!

So, my goal for InaDWriMo is 12K words. Basically, I have these two papers for which I've basically done all the work, they just need to be written up. And, inevitably, writing papers means double checking my data and the reduction and all that, so I need to remember what the heck and I did and basically do it all over again just to be sure I'm writing it up correctly. Anyway, my goal is not necessarily to have something submitable by the end of the month, just enough forward momentum that I'll actually be able to publish them in the next calendar year.

All this while finishing up a couple other papers. (I say this to reassure John that I'm still working on our project.) Oh, and job applications. And travelling for Thanksgiving. Okay, I guess my writing goal is a bit ambitious.

So is it cheating that I went to start writing, and discovered that I already had 1619 words of a paper written already, and I'm going to go ahead and count that toward my goal? Because, it turns out that I'm going to have to do quite a bit of revising on that bit of text already.