It was during the first half of April as my professor gave me a link to a call for papers for a workshop at the 43rd annual German conference on informatics[1]. At this time, the deadline was already very short. If I remember correctly, only one or two weeks were left. Altough it seemed very unlikely to finish until the end of the deadline, I started to write a paper just for training purposes. I finished the first version about a week later and mailed it to my professor to get some feedback.

It turned out that it was already more than just a training and it could have enough potential to be submitted to the conference. Fortunately, the deadline for the submission was postponed and we had enough time to improve my paper. Finally, it was good enough to give it a try and I submitted it. Unfortunately, I’ve done a terrible mistake in the process.

Several weeks later, the reviews were finished and I recieved the news that my paper was accepted. However, it needed a huge overhaul until the final print version could be submitted.

Writing my very first paper was an interesting experience and I’ve learnt a lot during this time. The majority of the gained experience however came from the mistakes I’ve done. Most of them were caused by the small amount of time (for me as a paper-writing-beginner) to write the paper. The other ones were caused by the fact that this was my very first paper and I haven’t done anything like this before. On the other side, I’m now prepared for future papers and have an idea how I’ll approach them.

However, my very first paper procedure isn’t fully completed yet. It was a paper for a workshop at the conference on informatics and thus the results have to be presented. That’s it, what I’m going to do tomorrow! I’ll head off to Koblenz today and finally have a short presentation tomorrow morning. When I’m finished with it, I’ll have survived my very first paper procedure from the beginning until the very end.