Interactive workshop on writing and publishing research: reflections and lessons learned

Blue Lacuna: Lessons Learned Writing the World’s Longest Interactive Fiction

Blue Lacuna is a new long form interactive fiction comprising nearly 400,000 words of prose and natural language source code. The longest work yet produced in the Inform 7 language, it is also among the most substantial text-based story games in existence, an interactive novel with an average play time of fifteen to twenty hours. In development between 2006 and 2009, Blue Lacuna features severa...

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Huntington's disease research and practice: reflections on the journey made and lessons learned.

Knowledge about some of the rarer causes of dementia is now quite advanced (Lautenschlager and Martins, 2005), which can in turn inform other more common causes of dementia. Such is the case with the monogenic disorder of Huntington’s disease (HD) when compared to, say, Alzheimer’s disease (AD). HD is an autosomal dominant hereditary neurodegenerative disease, which involves the basal ganglia, ...

Preparing for retirement: reflections on mistakes made and lessons learned.

When I started my career 35 years ago, I was asked what I considered a very strange question: “How much money do you want to contribute monthly to your retirement account?” I immediately thought, “Isn’t that a little premature—I haven’t even started my first job!” However, upon further reflection, I realized the value in preparing for something that, like death and taxes, is inevitable for phys...

Writing and publishing your research findings.

Writing clearly is critical to the success of your scientific career. Unfortunately, this skill is not taught in medical school or postgraduate training. This article summarizes our approach to the writing and publication of your research. Here we focus on empirical or experimental reports of translational and clinically oriented research. We review the process of choosing what to write, how to...