Join #sciwrite and get that manuscript done.

Anne Jefferson over at Highly Allochthonous has organized a writing challenge. The idea is just to state your goals for manuscript writing either on your own blog or in the comments on the above link. Every Sunday you post a new update sharing what you've accomplished in the past week to move your manuscript/project forward.

Anne's idea:

Here’s the plan. Use the comments below to tell me what you want to accomplish in the next 5 weeks. Each Sunday evening, I’ll stick up a post summarizing what I’ve accomplished during the past week, and what I need to get done in the next week order to reach my goal. You can do the same in the comments or on your own blog (with a link in the comments here, please!) During the week, we can use whatever means we please, such as reviving Brian Roman’s old #sciwrite tag on Twitter, to keep in touch, provide encoruagement, and brag about our progress. By December 4th, we will have reached our goals and we can go out for a virtual or real celebratory drink. Maybe I’ll even come up with some sort of prize or badge to reward participation.

My goal is to have my manuscript from my undergrad research at UC Santa Cruz ready to submit by the AGU Fall Meeting (Dec. 4th). I'll be presenting a poster on the research there so I really need to get everything done before then.

This week I performed and reviewed grain analysis on thin sections to expand/solidify our data.

So head over to Highly Allochthonous and join the #SciWrite team!