I will be taking the rest of the year off from writing. Over Christmas, I’ll do some thinking about how to start up the new year. I think I might do some private experiments with Andrew Shields’ “111 words” exercise, a challenge that was recently taken up by Jonathan Mayhew. I don’t expect much of myself in January, but starting in early February I’ll be putting in eight solid weeks on the book again, driven along by the Craft of Research Series, which I have just announced the dates for: starting January 31, it will run every Wednesday evening. As always, I’ll begin with a general introduction to how to write a research paper, then get into some specifics (reviewing the literature, writing the theory, methods, and analysis sections) and then, in early March, take a broader view again and look at the structure of a paper. After focusing on the remaining major sections of the paper (background and discussion), it’ll be Easter. I’ll then take a one-week break.