also, i'd love to hear more about your experience in academia one day

SimpleStacker

Yeah, the whole process is making less and less sense as digital distribution and open source collaboration tools become more widespread

During my stint in academia, I learned that writing and publishing tend to be very supervised activities for outsiders. It seemed, if you were not a titled/credentialed lackey in the inner circles of an area of discipline, they really want to launder your work completely before they get near it. Or, they just don't bother.

Once also I submitted and went through several gruling rounds of edits (taking months) before the editor finally said I should consider submittinf to another journal.

econ

Research in Public #19: Pressing on through discouragements

During my stint in academia, I learned that writing and publishing tend to be very supervised activities for outsiders. It seemed, if you were not a titled/credentialed lackey in the inner circles of an area of discipline, they really want to launder your work completely before they get near it. Or, they just don't bother.

Once also I submitted and went through several gruling rounds of edits (taking months) before the editor finally said I should consider submittinf to another journal.