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Re:Ask HN: How do you find motivation to write blog posts? by muzani on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:08AM (#23611134)
I "blog" extensively on Facebook, but not a personal blog as those are too bothersome to set up.

What I do is simply write down notes around a problem and solution and them dump the notes on a post as briefly as possible. Usually the blogging itself is minimal effort.

Another method is just "scaling" up a conversation. People often talk frequently about the same topics, like tips on how to start freelancing, how to scale up a startup, and the answers are often the same but take minutes to type up each time. For this, it's useful to just write it once and then expand in full in a blog.

I recommend not trying to keep to a regular schedule of blogging, because this will force you to write sloppy, unless you're doing constant experiments on a topic and want to post updates.

Re:Ask HN: How do you find motivation to write blog posts? by gitgud on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @09:34PM (#23635922)
This is interestingly against what people usually recommend. Usually people say "create you own blog" and "keep to a regular schedule", I suppose that's to grow an audience for monetisation strategies... which isn't everyone's top priority