ABSTRACT
During the course of my career as an academic psychologist, I have met many scientists who loathe the writing process. Some of them have commented that they enjoy doing science but not writing about it. For them, they say, the joy is in designing and executing the research, not in writing it up. An extreme case was a scientist I knew early in my career whose academic trajectory was on a path to the stars, but who seemed never to get to writing up the work he did. He kept saying that the articles were imminent; later it was a couple of books that were imminent. Nothing much ever came out, and the trajectory of this scientist fell as fast as it had risen. To this day, people are puzzled as to what in the world happened to him.
