What I've Learned From Writing #1

Your book will never be finished, but at some point you just have to publish it. This is a lesson I learned before I began writing my first novel. In fact, I learned this in grad school while writing my first research paper for submission to a peer-reviewed journal (accepted and published, by the way!).
I started by preparing the figures (images and graphs) that I thought best represented my results. Next came writing the abstract, which is printed before the full text and which serves much the same purpose as the back-cover blurb of a novel: to explain to a potential reader the important points of a story. Abstract complete, the author’s next task is to write the full-text article.
The author (of a scientific paper as well as of a novel) must obey three rules:

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