Actually, I think it leads to a second catch-22 as well. When I look back at my old posts, I’m horrified by a lot of them, despite the fact that I tried to hold myself to this high standard for publishing.
You know, the funny thing is that to get good at writing, writing a lot is actually a good strategy. Holding yourself to a very high can be actively harmful to the goal of writing a lot.
(I don’t expect that you need this advice anymore, but maybe somebody else sees it.)
I think one way to frame this productively might be to have the realization that it is necessary to write a bunch of bad blog posts, in order to get good. Each of these bad blog posts, that you can look back upon, should be seen as a success. They were a necessary step along the way. It might not be apparent how you got better at writing from one blog post to the next, but ultimately the skill that you have reached now is the result of very many of these (at least most of the time) tiny steps.
Don’t cringe when Looking at old Work
You know, the funny thing is that to get good at writing, writing a lot is actually a good strategy. Holding yourself to a very high can be actively harmful to the goal of writing a lot.
(I don’t expect that you need this advice anymore, but maybe somebody else sees it.)
I think one way to frame this productively might be to have the realization that it is necessary to write a bunch of bad blog posts, in order to get good. Each of these bad blog posts, that you can look back upon, should be seen as a success. They were a necessary step along the way. It might not be apparent how you got better at writing from one blog post to the next, but ultimately the skill that you have reached now is the result of very many of these (at least most of the time) tiny steps.