Unfortunately, I feel like the format coerced me into to salami-slicing my longer posts into short posts that could fill multiple days.
Ah, similar here: three posts from what normally would be one (1, 2, 3), and I feel dirty. However, should I? It is not obvious—maybe each of those articles would be quite okay in itself, it’s just that I started imagining it as one article, and that set my expectations too high (maybe unrealistically high).
I think there is a risk that as you get better at blogging, your expectations increase, until at one moment you are unable to meet your own expectations (e.g. because you get too lucky recently), and then you feel like a failure.
Ben has proposed a solution called “Weekhaven”— to have people write one long 3500-word effortpost every week. I could not endorse this more.
I like it, but maybe even better: allow both options. A short post is worth one point, a long post multiple points—could even be sublinear, like 500 words = 1 point, 1200 words = 2 points, 2000 words = 3 points...
Ha, take that, planning fallacy!
Ah, similar here: three posts from what normally would be one (1, 2, 3), and I feel dirty. However, should I? It is not obvious—maybe each of those articles would be quite okay in itself, it’s just that I started imagining it as one article, and that set my expectations too high (maybe unrealistically high).
I think there is a risk that as you get better at blogging, your expectations increase, until at one moment you are unable to meet your own expectations (e.g. because you get too lucky recently), and then you feel like a failure.
I like it, but maybe even better: allow both options. A short post is worth one point, a long post multiple points—could even be sublinear, like 500 words = 1 point, 1200 words = 2 points, 2000 words = 3 points...