worth the time you are spending on it? Should you keep working on this article? If you are feeling good about the article, you skip following
if you are feeling bad about your article, l hope your readers this week can reinvigorate your commitment to it. At this late stage, others can see your work more positively than you do, and you should trust them. If you to wonder article is worth working on at all, ask your-self if the main reason you want to stop is because you are scared, tired, or bored. If so, push on! Those feelings will pass. As Bolker says, "Just a it's okay to be scared, it's also okay to be tired and bored just so long as you keep working anyway" (Bolker 1998, 124). Don't be like Frodo in Lord of the Rings who spends his whole life making it to the volcano at Mount Doom only to decide not to throw the ring in(Lee 2005) however, the reason you want to stop is because you have slowly discovered some fatal flaw in your article, and have confirmation from trusted reader that the article cannot be salvaged, you have some decisions to make. If you are not going to work on this article, which one will y work on? You cannot simply stop writing, as an academic, you must always be working toward publication. You have two choices You can select another article for revision and start work on it right away or, now you earned many of the principles for writing a publishable article, you can start from scratch on a brand new article If you make the decision to abandon the article and move on to another don't feel you have wasted your time. Rather, you have learned something important about your own writing through the revising process In my course, quite a few students do significant revising and then decide that the paper they chose was too flawed to revise into publishable quality But many write to me later to say that the process of revising their own work them more than drafting articles from scratch ever had and that subsequent writing was much easier Further, nothing confirms that you am a true writer more than having the courage to set writing aside