Tootfinder

Maybe write to the editor to ask what's up before pulling your article because things aren't going as fast as you'd like. Peer review takes a while, everyone's overworked (including the people who've already put in the work and wrote a review), and you're not any more important than anyone else. Academia is constantly finding new ways to disappoint.

Something I learned late in my academic life and since trying to implement in most of my teaching: When you do science, you actively have to revisit all your documentation regularly and think of ways to paint a bigger picture of your findings.
When you just document, your viewpoint is sort of chronological or even biographical.
Explaining a new finding in the order you found the puzzle pieces leading to that discovery, usually is not the best way to explain or write about it.
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