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Writing Days
Brainstorming
I personally am constantly brainstorming and starting drafts, jotting down notes for topics, and making mental notes for future articles. There is always something new I want to share whether it be something new I read about, a new project I am working on, or something amazing I discovered. My mentality is if it is useful to me, if I think it's amazing and cool, then someone else must too.
Sitting down and Writing
Actually writing....only happens once a week though. Maybe even once every other week. It really depends on how many articles I ended up with the week before.
Publishing Days
I personally had started with posting articles once a day but slowly increased to an average of twice a day due to the volume of content I was creating. Easily, I could cut back on the writing and focus on my projects and studies more but I have always had a passion for writing and sharing.
What about you? How much do you write each week and how far in advance do you prepare your articles?
Happy coding!
Top comments (3)
I recently switched my blogging process. Previously I wrote Hugo posts in the Hugo project. Recently, I started writing them as part of my
org-modeecosystem in Emacs.What this allows is a more natural "draft" space that allows for documentation composition (via
org-transclusion, which I wrote about here).This means my personal notes can easily become published notes, while keeping unpublished "nodes" from being linked to in the export.
Which is to say, I'm writing all of the time, in a manner that makes converting to publications easier. I drew some inspiration from How I Take Notes with Org-roam which helped me rethink my note taking.
I usually don't finish a post until 24 hours before I intend to publish (I'm a perfectionist 😅) but I have 6-10 drafts in queue. Some are topics that I need to prune, others topics I need to invest more time with. 2-3 of them will be posts I focus on in the short term.
I come up with article ideas and then put them into Notion. I green light the ones that I want to work on and usually complete them in a day or two if they are short. Or over a few weeks if they are long article. It takes much longer to complete articles that are heavy in code because they tend to require a lot of testing and you have to build an app sometimes.