Incidentally, writing these posts has been shockingly exhausting and time-absorbing.
Of course. Don’t feel bad about it; sometimes is takes me 20 minutes to write a comment. For longer texts, the only thing that can significantly increase my speed is alcohol; it turns off the desire to rewrite each sentence dozen times until it’s perfect. (Spoiler: After rewriting the sentence dozen times, it usually still feels bad, maybe even worse.)
I was thinking about a different technique, though I never tried it: to simply speak the article to a microphone, and then rewrite my speech. Perhaps you could do it along with drawing the diagrams on paper, and then also scan the paper and add the pictures to the article.
I have always explained this material in the past with easy access to pen and paper, and somehow it never quite occurred to me that even sketching out a few dots and arrows is much more of a pain on a computer.
Just draw it on the paper. Then either scan it, or simply make a photo—your smartphone almost certainly has much higher resolution than you need.
Of course. Don’t feel bad about it; sometimes is takes me 20 minutes to write a comment. For longer texts, the only thing that can significantly increase my speed is alcohol; it turns off the desire to rewrite each sentence dozen times until it’s perfect. (Spoiler: After rewriting the sentence dozen times, it usually still feels bad, maybe even worse.)
I was thinking about a different technique, though I never tried it: to simply speak the article to a microphone, and then rewrite my speech. Perhaps you could do it along with drawing the diagrams on paper, and then also scan the paper and add the pictures to the article.
Just draw it on the paper. Then either scan it, or simply make a photo—your smartphone almost certainly has much higher resolution than you need.