back on track

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I've now been in Wagga Wagga for just over a month. That time has flown and I am now feeling quite settled. I think it took much longer to reach this same "spot" mentally when I moved to Rockhampton because it was such an unknown place to me (think, moving across three states from Ballarat to Rockhampton -that's pretty extreme!).

I've just received a positive response about an article that I submitted to an an early childhood literacy journal. It is probably my favourite piece of writing to date so I am very happy that i only need to make some minor revisions. Having said that, there were four reviewers and so quite a lot of feedback and points that I need to address systematically.

I started today by writing out a list of suggested revisions. As I did this I realised that some points -while different - could be addressed by reworking the same small sections in the draft. That helped to make it more manageable.

Doing revisions is a stage of the journal writing process that i still find challenging. This is mainly because I have "left" the paper once I send it off and usually go on to submerge myself in other data and another focus for writing. In this case, the review has only taken two months so I dont' feel quite so distanced from it. It is important to get onto this paper straight away - hopefully, it might make an issue for 2010. This will be my first article written under the Charles Sturt University "banner".