Inspired by Ruth, Asterisk and Dom7, I have decided to look at the process of getting published from a perspective that doesn’t freeze me with inability to act. The goal will be about both conference papers and, more crucially, scholarly articles in journals.

Yesterday, submission 1 for this goal got sent – a proposed paper for a conference in Florida next autumn. In that process, I noticed I have an article-length, pretty interesting paper manuscript that has been waiting for 11 months without me doing anything to it despite encouragement to publish. There really has been something wrong with me re: publishing that needs to be rethought. I can’t expect all my life to write and give only invited papers where the fear of rejection is taken away. So, starting now, I will focus zealously and work really hard on getting 43 paper rejections.