Paper Planning

This is a pre-writing planning framework for academic papers that runs you through four stages: story design (task-challenge-insight-contribution), experiment planning (comparisons and ablations), figure sketching, and a four-week timeline. The counterintuitive tactics are the best part: write a mock rejection letter first to identify weak points, design ablations before polishing your method text, and define your narrowest defensible claim before expanding. It's opinionated about sequencing (pipeline figure before any writing, Introduction and Method drafts to your advisor by week three). Use this before you start drafting. Once you're actually writing sections, hand off to the paper-writing skill instead.