So, first some more relevant details, and then my plan of action.
My instrumental reasons for wanting to submit the drafts are: first, it’s career-damaging for someone in my line of work to let two nearly complete drafts languish; second, my former advisor also has an interest in seeing the work published (that’s basically his job too) so if I want to get a good reference from him, I have to do it. There’s no fixed deadline per se, but the sooner the better.
My plan of action is to begin with those approaches which seem to target the stress reaction first, and if unsuccessful there, to move on to approaches which require working through it. In the first category are the suggestions of Vladimir Golovin (paragraph 3), erratio, and wedrifid. In the second category are the suggestions of Vladimir M, Vladimir Golovin (paragraph 2), cousin_it, and MartinB. I won’t be following up on the suggestions of datadataeverywhere and JamesAndrix as I have already tried artificial time pressure and I know it doesn’t help.
My thanks to all of you for taking the time to offer your helpful suggestions!
So, first some more relevant details, and then my plan of action.
My instrumental reasons for wanting to submit the drafts are: first, it’s career-damaging for someone in my line of work to let two nearly complete drafts languish; second, my former advisor also has an interest in seeing the work published (that’s basically his job too) so if I want to get a good reference from him, I have to do it. There’s no fixed deadline per se, but the sooner the better.
My plan of action is to begin with those approaches which seem to target the stress reaction first, and if unsuccessful there, to move on to approaches which require working through it. In the first category are the suggestions of Vladimir Golovin (paragraph 3), erratio, and wedrifid. In the second category are the suggestions of Vladimir M, Vladimir Golovin (paragraph 2), cousin_it, and MartinB. I won’t be following up on the suggestions of datadataeverywhere and JamesAndrix as I have already tried artificial time pressure and I know it doesn’t help.
My thanks to all of you for taking the time to offer your helpful suggestions!