It's come to my attention, based on one of my past articles, that I am not super satisfied with my outputs. At the moment, I'm writing 2 articles a week, one with a friend and one solo on my personal blog. For some reason, I want to write more.
In my past article, I wrote a Goldilocks of my output:
Too Little: No writing
"Just Right": 1-2 articles a week
"Too Much": An article a day
Upon reflection, I realized the above dichotomy is too simplistic. In my daily writing experiment, I publish daily on Medium, which ended up being quite stressful. My initial reflection on that experiment was that it was too stressful to write daily, yet as I hunger for more writing I think I made an error.
I think the error I made was that I assumed all daily publishing is equal. Yet, it's not.
Medium, since it's my home base for content, is where I expect high quality content to be. I want Medium to be the place where my most highly curated writing goes. With that expectation comes stress.
What I realized is that I want a layer between writing a Medium post and processing my thoughts in Obsidian.
Originally, I hoped to build out my own website for the purpose. That was a terrible failure and I still think it gives me the fear of publishing that comes with putting something on a website. The internet feels permanent and authoritative and I'm looking for quick and easy.
The two most promising things to come through are 750 words and Hey World, which is what I'm using right now. Both give me the option of writing daily without feeling too much pressure. Hey World publishes it and 750 words doesn't. Maybe it's a 3 part funnel...
Maybe, what I need to do for output is Obsidian -> 750 Words -> Hey World -> Medium.
I must say, I do quite like that.
In my past article, I wrote a Goldilocks of my output:
Too Little: No writing
"Just Right": 1-2 articles a week
"Too Much": An article a day
Upon reflection, I realized the above dichotomy is too simplistic. In my daily writing experiment, I publish daily on Medium, which ended up being quite stressful. My initial reflection on that experiment was that it was too stressful to write daily, yet as I hunger for more writing I think I made an error.
I think the error I made was that I assumed all daily publishing is equal. Yet, it's not.
Medium, since it's my home base for content, is where I expect high quality content to be. I want Medium to be the place where my most highly curated writing goes. With that expectation comes stress.
What I realized is that I want a layer between writing a Medium post and processing my thoughts in Obsidian.
Originally, I hoped to build out my own website for the purpose. That was a terrible failure and I still think it gives me the fear of publishing that comes with putting something on a website. The internet feels permanent and authoritative and I'm looking for quick and easy.
The two most promising things to come through are 750 words and Hey World, which is what I'm using right now. Both give me the option of writing daily without feeling too much pressure. Hey World publishes it and 750 words doesn't. Maybe it's a 3 part funnel...
Maybe, what I need to do for output is Obsidian -> 750 Words -> Hey World -> Medium.
I must say, I do quite like that.