Use this writing log in parallel to the main writing project document to track your progress and record your plans.
The writing log is a document that is external to the manuscript. It stores the plans and progress made on one manuscript. It is a tool for enhancing your focus and sustaining momentum on the writing project. It is also a tool that eases re-engagement in an interrupted writing project. The writing log is like a master thinking document or a second brain for a writing project.
Instructions for using the writing log are found in the annotations in the template. You can delete these after they are no longer needed.
Version 0.3 of the writing log is divided into four sections:
- project initiation
- daily entries
- future additions and tangents
- Guidelines, checklists, protocols, and helpful tips
The subsections of these four sections are shown below.
- Rationale
- Audience
- Target journals
- Related projects
- Potential Introduction
- Potential Results
- Potential Discussion points
- Prior discussion points
- Potential titles
- Potential keywords
- Potential abstract
- Abbreviations
- Potential collaborators
- Potential competitors
- Potential reviewers
- Draft cover letter
- Daily Protocol
- Daily Log
- Update writing progress notebook
- Update personal knowledge base
- Timeline or Benchmarks
- Next action
- To be done
- Word Count
- Ideas to consider adding to the manuscript
- Introduction
- Results
- Discussion
- To be done someday
- Spin-off writing projects
- Tips for using Overleaf
- Protocol for running Grammarly in Overleaf
- Guidelines for debugging the annotated bibliography
- Graphical Abstract
- Guidelines for benchmarks
- Guidelines for using the Writing Progress Notebook
- Guidelines for using a personal knowledge base
- Writing Log template in LaTeX. The favored format. LaTeX beginners can use this document easily on Overleaf without any configuration.
- Writing log template in Org-mode Has all of the features of the LaTeX variant. Favored by many Emacs users. Org-mode is a powerful analog of markdown that can interpret LaTeX code blocks. It is vastly more capable than markdown. It even supports literate programming.
- Writing log template in reStructuredText reStructuredText is used by programmers for documentation.
- Writing log template in Markdown Markdown variant. Read and rendered to PDF by most good text editors.
- Writing log template in ODT ODT can be read by Open Office, LibreOffice and MS Word.
- Voice computing-related repositories
- LaTeX manuscript template
- Org-mode manuscript template
- Slideshow template in LaTeX
- Annotated bibliography Template in LaTeX
- Track writing progress in 2024 and 2025
- Diary for 2024 in LaTeX
- latex-emacs profile
- default Emacs profile
- snippets for latex-mode in Emacs
- Quizzes about Emacs to improve recall of keybindings
- Slides from talk about GhostText, Data Science Workshop, July 2022
- Video link to talk about GhostText, Data Science Workshop, July 2022
- Slideshow about using LaTeX in Emacs, Berlin Emacs Meetup, 31 August 2022
- The writer's crede
| Version | Changes | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Version 0.3.1 | Added funding and update table. | 2024 August 11 |
- NIH: R01 CA242845
- NIH: R01 AI088011
- NIH: P30 CA225520 (PI: R. Mannel)
- NIH: P20 GM103640 and P30 GM145423 (PI: A. West)