The process of working on a conference paper, in five short steps

  1.  Fortunately, I can repurpose a chunk of this Thing I did elsewhere.  Score!
  2. OK, most of this Thing isn't relevant in the new argumentative context, but I can still use some of it.
  3. Actually, I need more space to talk about Thing #2.
  4. Come to think of it, this argument really needs an additional paragraph on Thing #3.
  5. *deletes Thing in its entirety*