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Julia Evanssome blogging myths https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/06/05/some-blogging-myths/
Michael W Lucas 
@b0rk yes, yes, yes, all of this. Very nice.
James RyanThanks for this; I could use some assurances as I get back into the practice.
yomimono, still on land@b0rk a few years ago, I went to design a cross stitch of the DNS packet header and went "...never mind" after about two hours
Maciek Flak@b0rk bookmarked! Thank you
Gustavo Silva@b0rk thanks! Reassuring content đź‘Ś
Cthululemon@b0rk
Woooow, get out of my brain! You magically covered 8 of the 10 reasons in my inventory, without my even knowing I had an inventory!
Woooow, get out of my brain! You magically covered 8 of the 10 reasons in my inventory, without my even knowing I had an inventory!
Isaac Halvorson@b0rk Just wanted to say thank you for this post. I've started to naturally edge my way toward your perspectives here, and seeing them written down on your blog was pretty motivating for me. I wrote 2 blog posts last night, taking only about 15 minutes each. It felt great to not really stress as much over all the details, and just try to write something decently interesting to me and maybe others.
Here are the posts if you're curious :)
https://hisaac.net/how-to-detect-if-your-macos-app-was-launched-as-a-login-item/
marco@b0rk one thing I wish I could read more about is "times from idea to first draft to post" for technical bloggers that I follow (such as yourself).
I realize that it is different for everyone and it depends on many factors (complexity of content, etc.) and it will decrease with time (holding other factors constant), but I think it would help just as grounding.
I often worry I am spending way too much time on drafts that eventually don't get published.
Any thoughts/data points to add?
@mc i’ll try to say more about this later, but personally i think actually i’ve gotten slower over time. i used to almost always publish within a few hours of starting. this meant that the posts were a bit shorter and more stream of consciousness, like this https://jvns.ca/blog/2013/10/02/day-3-what-does-the-linux-kernel-even-do/
@mc i think about it more in terms of "number of edits" than “time from first draft”. usually I edit posts either 0 times (sit down, write, publish, done), or 1 time (write a draft, let it sit, edit once, publish)
I think I'm most likely to do 0 edits if it's less than 1000 words, longer posts take more time in general. For example this one is 4000 words and took lots of edits, maybe 5 or 6 https://jvns.ca/blog/confusing-explanations/
@b0rk Thanks, this is helpful! A while ago I found a few other meta-posts by some writers about their typical timelines. I'll try to locate it again.
I that many of your points resonate with me. I tend to get bogged down by things I want to include in a post. The way I get around this is to set a word limit, allow myself to go over it until I am happy, and then cut back down.
But the bigger issue is that I don't even get started on posts because I think other would find it boring or trivial.
@mc yeah -- I think you have to remember that if it's interesting to you, probably someone other people find it interesting too
I also do a lot of the writing in my head before I sit down, which makes "sit down and type it all out" a lot easier
@mc (also I wrote this a couple of years ago which I still agree with https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/05/24/blog-about-what-you-ve-struggled-with/)
Aaron B@b0rk This was a super useful post to me! I think I often get stuck on "posts need to be 100% correct" as well as a corollary "posts need to be 100% complete".
As much as I want to write down all the information I know about a topic, the post will probably never get posted if I actually try to do this!
Matt Mullenweg@b0rk Great post! I wish you ran WordPress and I could comment on your blog, I wanted to leave a link to my recent post: https://ma.tt/2023/05/power-of-one/
