the loneliness of the long distance runner

the dust settles on PhD excitement. While actually getting IT has been a tremendous thrill i now move onto publishing from my thesis. In hindsight, i wish that i had published throughout the long proces of doing my PhD research. My friend Robyn is doing that as she moves through the stages of her PhD. Her writing of journal articles is fueled by her analaysis of data and fuels the analytic process itself. I waited and i regret that.Writing journal articles involves a different form of writing and one that i now engage with. How does a chapter of a thesis ,with meticulous analysis of many sequences of talk , become a readable article?