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A comment on Ask HN: How do you find motivation to write blog posts?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you find motivation to write blog posts? by j_z_reeves on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:14AM (#23610772)
One thing that bewilders me is the time commitment to writing a blog article. It seems like a lot of these high-profile developers are churning out blog posts. It takes a lot of time to write anything meaningful and coherent. It requires research and experimentation. The time to do so just isn't easy to materialize out of a busy and occupied schedule.

I would love it if developers that wrote blog posts wrote, "Don't worry, if this seems magical, it isn't. I spend weeks figuring it out and writing this all out took several days!"

My advice, to myself and you is, just open textedit/notepad, and start writing! Add a little bit and keep revising until it's publishable. It will take weeks/months but I don't think anyone will care.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you find motivation to write blog posts? by gitgud on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @09:29PM (#23635885)
> "It seems like a lot of these high-profile developers are churning out blog posts"

So true, the art of blogging has literally become an industry, where monetisation and consistency is valued over quality.

> ""Don't worry, if this seems magical, it isn't. I spend weeks figuring it out and writing this all out took several days!""

This would be an honest depiction of a technical blog article. People don't realise how much time goes into formulating code samples, diagrams and simply making it fun to read!

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