My interpretation of your situation was ‘become comfortable submitting things you’re not fully happy with’ was one of the most important things to work on.
What do you think about the goal of ‘write a shortform/Facebook post and publish it’ each day, rather than a top level post? Once that’s happening reliably you could then work on better examples, and you could later rework things into top level posts.
Yeah, I get these impression as well. One perspective that might help is “thinking in public”.
Ie. when you write some sort of shortform content (blog post, LW shortform, social media, whatever), it’s not a finished product. It’s just you working through things, and making that process visible to others. Maybe they’ll find it useful. Or inspiring. Or informative. Maybe they’ll have good feedback. Maybe it’ll lead to interesting conversations. Or collaborations.
Another perspective is, consider sitting at a coffee shop with a friend and telling them about something you’ve been thinking about recently. If such thoughts are good enough to tell a friend, I think they’re also good enough to post on the internet.
Then again, this is based on the premise that the goal is “publish something every day”. I don’t think I understand why that is the goal in the first place, so maybe my proposal isn’t actually a good way to hit at the supergoal.
Hmm, it would probably work well to write a longer daily FB post, like if I set a goal to publish at least 500 words each day.
Part of the goal is ‘become comfortable submitting things I’m not fully happy with’ and part is ‘actually produce words faster’. The second part feels like it needs the length requirement. I’ve done daily short FB posts before and found it useful, but I noticed that I tended to write mostly short posts that didn’t require me to hammer out words.
My interpretation of your situation was ‘become comfortable submitting things you’re not fully happy with’ was one of the most important things to work on.
What do you think about the goal of ‘write a shortform/Facebook post and publish it’ each day, rather than a top level post? Once that’s happening reliably you could then work on better examples, and you could later rework things into top level posts.
Yeah, I get these impression as well. One perspective that might help is “thinking in public”.
Ie. when you write some sort of shortform content (blog post, LW shortform, social media, whatever), it’s not a finished product. It’s just you working through things, and making that process visible to others. Maybe they’ll find it useful. Or inspiring. Or informative. Maybe they’ll have good feedback. Maybe it’ll lead to interesting conversations. Or collaborations.
Another perspective is, consider sitting at a coffee shop with a friend and telling them about something you’ve been thinking about recently. If such thoughts are good enough to tell a friend, I think they’re also good enough to post on the internet.
Then again, this is based on the premise that the goal is “publish something every day”. I don’t think I understand why that is the goal in the first place, so maybe my proposal isn’t actually a good way to hit at the supergoal.
Hmm, it would probably work well to write a longer daily FB post, like if I set a goal to publish at least 500 words each day.
Part of the goal is ‘become comfortable submitting things I’m not fully happy with’ and part is ‘actually produce words faster’. The second part feels like it needs the length requirement. I’ve done daily short FB posts before and found it useful, but I noticed that I tended to write mostly short posts that didn’t require me to hammer out words.