My decision to write the PhD-thesis as a monograph was primarily related to the holistic ethnographic and explorative research design that I used. The theoretical framework (socio cultural) strengthened the decision of analysing links and meetings between historical, cultural and individual processes of learning as it appeared in the data material. Writing the “long lines” enhanced an on-going exploration of theoretical and methodological aspects, which also became a rich and extensive process of learning for me. However, the challenges came along after the dissertation. The most overarching problem was transforming the long lines of thoughts with “everything intertwined with everything” into clear and bounded foci for the purpose of writing research articles. Secondly there were the complications with decoding genre conventions within journal articles and thirdly the challenge of translating from mother tongue into academic English. The following questions will be discussed: How can my difficulties be conceptualised? How can the relationship between writing in different genres and learning be understood? I also address the more pragmatic question: Is there any help to find for making the transformation from the one academic genre to another easier?