On Writing

Excerpt

As Editor-in-Chief of this fine journal, I have read countless manuscripts. Some of these submissions have been extremely interesting while others have been rather pedestrian. Some have described innovative methods while others relied on more conventional approaches. Some have produced innovative findings while others produced replication, which is equally important and essential to our science. Some resulted in publication while others did not. One thing that they all had in common is that they were the result of a labor of love. They were the distillation of countless hours of work in the field and of hours of writing and rewrites. During my five years at the helm of this Journal, I have occasionally, and fleetingly, wondered why we write. …