She won't read the emails either. Last week I sent her a draft of a paper and in the email said "I think I want to aim this at XYZ journal"

She then phoned me to tell me it needed rescoping (I know she'd only skim read the 1st page) and then asked me what journal I wanted to aim it for.

I'm just gritting my teeth - trying to get the three out she has to be named on, so I can then have more freedom about how I write.

Oh Sneaks, that sounds so frustrating! I think I'd try to do something like Skig suggests and just pretend to be going along with her changes - even my supervisors (who are generally great) are completely incapable of remembering what changes they suggested in a previous draft and frequently contradict themselves. Hope you manage to battle through it!

And Skig, glad you've had a productive morning. I am feeling full of energy today - I think it's because I went swimming yesterday after being stuck indoors writing solidly for a few days, and the exercise has really lifted my mood. Gonna go again tomorrow morning to try to keep this mood going!

My supervisor just threw a spanner in the works of my big plan to get my data analysis finished, though. My main supervisor is on holiday, and he tends to dominate, so today I just met with my second supervisor to discuss my journal paper. He's more junior than first supervisor so usually sits back and just comes in with sharp observations now and then, but today he was on fire. We dissected my paper for an hour and a half - he got very excited and wants me to rewrite it by 5pm Thursday and meet him on Friday to discuss it. And like a fool I agreed. So that's hardly any sleep for the rest of the week and no chance of looking at the data analysis then! Oh well, it's great that he's so enthusiastic, and he was incredibly helpful, and getting the paper submitted will be good for my PhD viva (and job applications!) anyway, so it's all good really!

its more she gets an idea in her head about what my research is about (when its not!) usually this will be based on a paper she's already put out so she'll say "I think this is the same issue we did in this paper...." and then runs with it without letting me say "erm no, it definitely isn't!", so when I send her another draft without any changes, she'll just keep going with this idea that it has to be what she says :-s

Oh Sneaks, I really feel for you! How frustrating!! Could you build a strong argument of how you're right and discuss this with her? If you feel so strongly about what you've written, then there must be a reason! Obviously I wouldn't go with the 'I'm right, you're wrong' route, but perhaps 'I can see what you're saying however, blablablah'

I'm glad you're finding the time to exercise Batfink. I went swimming yesterday too but I hadn't exercised at all in ages and I'm a bit sore today:$

I really believe I can finish my intro today so off I go.

I'm going to wait on her changes and see exactly what she has in mind. I think sometimes she hypes it up so a 'complete re-scope' can literally mean just changing a word e.g. 'incidents' to 'events' which in her mind changes the whole nature of the study - to me its just a word.

I'm also seeking other peoples opinion, I've told her I'm sending it out to specialists in the field I know and my viva examiners who offered to check potential publications.

I'm also the one who submits it to a journal, so I can always 'do the final edit' before sending it in :p

That sounds like a good plan, Sneaks.

I'm wokring my way through changes to my journal paper. I've reordered the sections and am changing some of the tables now, and I don't think the rewrite will be as bad as I thought. Famous last words, of course!

I've done the method section.

Think I'll spend the next 2 hours planning out an essay I have to write for teacher training and writing a list of lectures I have to plan for next year!

I'm glad you two managed to do some work.

Things weren't too bad here either. Intro done earlier, just need to have a last read tomorrow. I even had a nap! How good is that?

Main goal today is to write the results section. Well edit it. Basically trying to get a 10,000 word qual chapter down to the 6,000 word journal limit AND include a lit review!

Basically I'll be deleting a lot of quotes today :p

Morning!

I'm doing results today to but I need to turn a 12,000 word chapter into a 2,000 word journal article :(

Better get started!

Blimey, good luck with the editing you too, sounds like lots of use of the delete button today!

I've just been swimming, 2km for the second time this week, so feeling energised now. Today I want to get as close to finishign the rewrite of the journal paper as I can - it's be great to get it all done but I won't beat myself up if I don't quite manage it.

Well done you Batfink!

Just popped in quickly to add that my article has to be between 5-6k and not 2k, that's my lit review and methods! Sorry my brain isn't quite working properly.

Back to work for me...

Morning all!

I was pretty disappointed at the end of yesterday as I didn't feel I'd done that much. Hopefully today will be better. I'm a bit stuck with my results but I'm hoping once I get started things will flow a bit more smoothly.

Have a good day everyone!

Morning Skig!

Hope today is a better day for you. But don't feel bad about the amount you achieved then - today is a new day, after all.

I didn't finish my journal article re-write yesterday, but shouldn't have any problems finishing it by today's 5pm deadline. If I have time I'd also like to go back to writing the idiot's notes on the new stats method that I started on Tuesday, but we'll see how it goes.

Hi Batfink. Thank you. I hope you've managed to finish your article.

My day has been a bit slow but we're moving forward. I really wanted to finish by tomorrow but it's not looking very promising as I have some errands to run this afternoon/early eve. Hubby is going out with friends for a few beers tonight so I'm hoping I'll have enough energy left to do some more work after dinner.