I lived abroad for 365 days. Each day I wrote a "recap", and posted it to Facebook. Many recaps were over 1,000 words long. I received tons of feedback, often i

I lived abroad for 365 days. Each day I wrote a "recap", and posted it to Facebook. Many recaps were over 1,000 words long. I received tons of feedback, often in real life. It was a brilliant experience. I agree with many of the points in the OP. I would like to add that there was no such thing as oversharing. Honest, gut-wrenchingly intimate details (with some anonymizing and filtering), framed in a well-composed piece of writing, somehow stand on their own. They become more personal to the reader than to me, the writer. They contrast to the whitewashed self-portraits of most people on social networks. One point I disagree on is the importance of editing. I think the key to good writing is a solid first draft. If you are editing content, rather than grammar, ordering, syntax or structure... then throw it out and start over. Before writing, give your thoughts some time to bake. Then write them down, and edit minimally. If you want to edit more, put it away and edit the next day. I never did that, starting and finishing most pieces on the same day. But, I have had regrets on every piece of writing I have ever produced. Lastly, I explored every last idea that I had. You should have an idea queue. Get to all of them.