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\n\"Sciwrite<\/a>Back in November 2011, Anne performed an experiment<\/a>. Anne wanted to see if being publicly accountable for my writing progress would get me to my goal of a paper submission before AGU. She didn’t quite make it<\/a>, but that month of weekly check-ins and progress reports on the blog did get her a lot closer to that paper being drafted than she would have been without the #sciwrite challenge. More than 40 other blog readers also participated in the challenge, and at least a few actually got manuscripts and theses submitted in that month. Ever since #sciwrite, we’ve been thinking that we need to do it again.<\/p>\n

If we’ve learned anything in our careers as academic scientists, it’s been the following: <\/p>\n

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  1. Writing is the major metric of professional success and is the only way of making neat results in the field and lab into something useful for others.<\/li>\n
  2. All that academic advice about how writing every day is the only sustainable path to getting things done turns out to be true. Darn it.<\/li>\n
  3. Yet writing tasks can easily and repeatedly slip to the bottom of the to-do list because they don’t have the same urgency of deadlines imposed on them like teaching, review assignments, and the crush of email. <\/li>\n
  4. Loop back to #1.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    With the idea that a little public accountability never hurt anyone, and that maybe having a community of people all going through the same writing process at the same time could actually help make life better, we’d like to introduce February 2014 as #sciwrite v 2.0. For the next four weeks, we’ll be committing to writing every day and sharing our goals and progress here on the blog on a weekly basis. We’d love it if other people joined us. <\/p>\n

    Anne’s goals:<\/strong> <\/p>\n