Well, no one wanted to join with me for Paper Writing Month, so I can only report on my own progress for November.
I got one full draft written, and the experiments for two others are more or less done running.
I can point out a number of factors that kept me from being more productive, none of which make me disappointed in myself. In all say this was a good exercise, and one I'll do again. Maybe next time, I can find a buddy or two to join with me on it.
Now that I've written four (now five) sentences including a first-person personal pronoun, here's some more general thoughts about research.
Alex and Aki at Ideas in Food have a blog post about about Creativity in the Kitchen. They loosely break this down into Inspiration, Flexibility, Motivation, Adaptation and Refinement. Both these top-level categories and the specifics they address apply almost as well to creativity in research. So check it out and cross-pollenate a little.
