It's clearly a different pubblishing milieu, but this post at the Cranky Editors community is one of the most depressing things I've ever read.
Quote: "Having your paper accepted nearly a year ago does not constitute any sort of emergency on my part nor does it mean I should give a rat's ass."
So, the person writes a paper, submits it to the journal, gets an acceptance letter, and then? A year later, the author's not supposed to care?
I imagine this must be in a non-timely field, but ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Do editors in other fields feel proportionately similarly about their writers?
I must immediately think about something else. Not, however, leftover Halloween candies that happen to also be lucky New Year candies, okay?
on other fronts: I'm not doing Nano, am I, because I started working on Bella and Chain months ago? And also I don't care how long it takes me to finish it, except that I want to be done soon so I can write more stuff.
Quote: "Having your paper accepted nearly a year ago does not constitute any sort of emergency on my part nor does it mean I should give a rat's ass."
So, the person writes a paper, submits it to the journal, gets an acceptance letter, and then? A year later, the author's not supposed to care?
I imagine this must be in a non-timely field, but ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Do editors in other fields feel proportionately similarly about their writers?
I must immediately think about something else. Not, however, leftover Halloween candies that happen to also be lucky New Year candies, okay?
on other fronts: I'm not doing Nano, am I, because I started working on Bella and Chain months ago? And also I don't care how long it takes me to finish it, except that I want to be done soon so I can write more stuff.