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Ask HN: How do you keep up writing for your blog?

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please share any special tricks if you have any

Not a special trick: it's easier to write as if the target audience is you instead of other people. I'm motivated to write what I would like to read. Since I like studying quantum computing, i've slowly moved from posting the writings to Wikipedia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vtomole) instead of my blog (https://vtomole.com/).

Good advice, essentially treating it as a journal for learning experiences but that can get tiresome after a while ones can get demotivated by "self" as an audience. To me it was always easier to write if I imagined I write for coworker or some specific type of person in mind e.g beginner to some technology but that is familiar with other stack etc. It's easy to get bikeshedded or go out on the yak shaving journey if you maintain the blog site but then again the lack of control with configured solutions can become irritating.

I knew one colleague used to be very proficient at blogs but the trouble was after a while he would loose interest and start a new one on the new subject, new domain and everything. With time he had several blogs on subjects unrelated but mostly all abandoned. I don't even know what could have been done about this kind of trap, but one thing I learned that starting a blog on a new hobby that you might not enjoy after couple of years is not the way to go.

My blogging is basically me just explaining to myself what I recently learned. People seem to prefer raw note dumps over words and opinions.

I just make small notes for interesting stuff ( usually tech related ) I've done in the past or really want to be doing in the foreseeable future. And I just get on with the best I can.

I have done that but those ultimately never assemble into anything coherent. It was always easier to write if I had some goal in mind whatever that may be

It's not a blog, but in writing my novel nothing gets me writing down the words like an hour timer and starting after my morning exercise (or 30 minutes).

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