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I've started probably thirty blogs over the years and never made a 3rd/4th/5th post. I started one again recently, then promptly caught COVID again and was knoc
by nathan_douglas 3y ago
I've started probably thirty blogs over the years and never made a 3rd/4th/5th post. I started one again recently, then promptly caught COVID again and was knocked down for a week, then got some bad job news and have since focused on trying to sell myself.
This latest blog feels different, though. More honest.
I guess on some level I was deluding myself with some kind of specific mission statement: "oh, I'll start a blog of poems I write" or "oh, I'll start a tech blog" or "oh, I'll start a blog with my weird code issues I've debugged" or "oh, I'll start a blog with my little DevOps snippets I liked."
This time, I was like "I'ma just write about whatever I'm freaking out about lately -- the sixth extinction, my new interest in pentesting, whatever -- and more geared at producing something that I myself would want to read: just some schmuck somewhere else in the tubes rattling into the void.
I need to get back on that.
- cgriswald 3y agoI have lots of thoughts about lots of things and can be interesting (and/or long-winded) at parties, but when it comes to writing a blog post my mind sort of blanks and I write about the most banal crap even I don't care about. It's like I'm making shit up just to have something to say rather than actually sharing my actual thoughts. To make matters worse, I can't stand the voice I write my blog in, but can't seem to use any other voice.
- insickness 3y agoRicky Gervais: Write about what you know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTJyDe7a2bo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTJyDe7a2bo TL;DR: Give yourself room to write about boring stuff, as long as it's honest.