Ah, there is that weird relation between writing and publishing. On one hand, publishing gives you the incentive to write. On the other hand, publishing gives you the anxiety about writing.
I have an intuition that a good solution to this would be some kind of multi-layered publishing system. Where you publish the article first to your close friends, and then if you feel okay about it, you promote it to larger audiences. At each step you can update the article; generally because you want to impress the larger audience more, but also based on the feedback from the previous audience. Probably each audience would have a separate comment section. At the first step, there would be no anxiety, because only your close friends will see it; and the next step, you would be encouraged by the feedback from the previous step.
Something similar could be achieved by having two blogs, one only accessible for friends. Maybe as a mutual help, for a small group of bloggers who want to overcome their writing blocks.
Topics that go into my head about what to write about revolve mostly about how it is hard to write.
Yeah, that is a trap. Although you might write an article like that, without publishing it, as a therapy.
I decided no actually this nested list doesn’t work on Twitter, so I will put this in an lw shortform
By the way, some of my LW posts started as shortforms that grew too long, so I decided to publish them separately. This reduces the anxiety a lot, because as long as I am writing in the shortform editor, I don’t really try to make it perfect. And when I switch to article form, I already have a large part of it written.
I wonder, maybe I should try writing all my article ideas as shortforms. To start writing, and commit to publishing it today, either as a shortform or as an article, depending on how well the shortform writing will go.
Ah, there is that weird relation between writing and publishing. On one hand, publishing gives you the incentive to write. On the other hand, publishing gives you the anxiety about writing.
I have an intuition that a good solution to this would be some kind of multi-layered publishing system. Where you publish the article first to your close friends, and then if you feel okay about it, you promote it to larger audiences. At each step you can update the article; generally because you want to impress the larger audience more, but also based on the feedback from the previous audience. Probably each audience would have a separate comment section. At the first step, there would be no anxiety, because only your close friends will see it; and the next step, you would be encouraged by the feedback from the previous step.
Something similar could be achieved by having two blogs, one only accessible for friends. Maybe as a mutual help, for a small group of bloggers who want to overcome their writing blocks.
Yeah, that is a trap. Although you might write an article like that, without publishing it, as a therapy.
By the way, some of my LW posts started as shortforms that grew too long, so I decided to publish them separately. This reduces the anxiety a lot, because as long as I am writing in the shortform editor, I don’t really try to make it perfect. And when I switch to article form, I already have a large part of it written.
I wonder, maybe I should try writing all my article ideas as shortforms. To start writing, and commit to publishing it today, either as a shortform or as an article, depending on how well the shortform writing will go.