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December 18, 2004
Army Reserves
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It is hard to search through your history for fun, entertaining events. It is even harder to write about them. Sometimes, I will post something that you already know, possibly something that I have already written about three months ago.
Writing is very unpredictable - there is no way of telling when you will be productive; and when you won’t. So when you have to write “against the clock” (on a daily/monthly schedule), you have to keep reserves. And sometimes half-finished reserves pile up: too frustrating to finish, and if finished, too frustrating not to publish.
Hook had to write a physics paper every two weeks. Half the time, they were obvious; the other half, they were wrong.
Posted by Oleg Ivrii at December 18, 2004 08:31 PM