So: I’m happy that I’ve kept up MaBloWriMo for 13 days so far, but I’m running out of steam. I’ve gone through essentially all of the posts in my backlog that were relatively easy to write, and the things I’d like to write about at this point either
- really should be done with diagrams (and it’s not easy to finish a blog post with diagrams in a day) or
- might take more time than I allot for blogging in a day to work through the relevant concepts.
Sticking to one post a day at this point is likely to drive down quality, so I think I am going to stop doing it. It was a good goal for awhile in that it got me to write some posts that I’d wanted to write for a long time now, but unfortunately it is now doing the opposite of that.
I am impressed you lasted so long. I thought only Akhil Mathew could do it, and even him would need a bit of cheating I am sure.
Don’t worry and congratulation for having made it so far.
I started by setting a minimum of 2 posts/month, and I am slowly trying to work up from that. I will be pretty happy if I can get to 1/week, while still writing about something that I really want to write about, which isn’t easy with research, teaching and marking. Good job on the 13 days though!
Unrelated question: what do you use to make those awesome drawings in your geometry notes (for example, here http://math.berkeley.edu/~qchu/Notes/274/Lecture1.pdf) and put them in LaTeX?
Thank you.
They were drawn in Paper.
Qiaochu you are not texing any more notes for the spring semester?
I am, but I haven’t finished deciding what classes I’m taking this semester yet.