First I assumed that the answer would be something like “my average comment is longer than yours, so my average quick take is more likely to be post-sized”, but from a brief look at our comment histories it doesn’t seem to be the case; I’d say our comments are comparable in length.
When I write comments, I am in a “reactive mode”—the text I have just read has triggered an emotion, and the emotion is driving my writing. I think as I write; when I am starting a comment I often have no idea how it would end. Sometimes the last paragraph even contradicts the first one.
When I write posts, I turn into a defensive perfectionist, I keep rewriting every sentence many times, and as a result, it takes me a day or two to write a post. Usually, after I finish it, I feel deeply dissatisfied with the outcome. Then I read it again the next day, and I conclude that it is okay.
The “start with a quick take, convert to post later” tactics allows me to channel the “reactive mode” energy into a post.
Perhaps you don’t have the same psychological problem (I am quite aware that my emotions about writing posts are irrational and harmful, but that doesn’t help to turn them off), and therefore this approach does not have the same effect for you.
I am wondering, too.
First I assumed that the answer would be something like “my average comment is longer than yours, so my average quick take is more likely to be post-sized”, but from a brief look at our comment histories it doesn’t seem to be the case; I’d say our comments are comparable in length.
When I write comments, I am in a “reactive mode”—the text I have just read has triggered an emotion, and the emotion is driving my writing. I think as I write; when I am starting a comment I often have no idea how it would end. Sometimes the last paragraph even contradicts the first one.
When I write posts, I turn into a defensive perfectionist, I keep rewriting every sentence many times, and as a result, it takes me a day or two to write a post. Usually, after I finish it, I feel deeply dissatisfied with the outcome. Then I read it again the next day, and I conclude that it is okay.
The “start with a quick take, convert to post later” tactics allows me to channel the “reactive mode” energy into a post.
Perhaps you don’t have the same psychological problem (I am quite aware that my emotions about writing posts are irrational and harmful, but that doesn’t help to turn them off), and therefore this approach does not have the same effect for you.