In much the same vein as Brendan Schlagel’s three “flavors of epistemic uncertainty for the blogger” linked yesterday comes Colin Devoe’s list of six bad reasons not to blog.
- Someone already wrote about this.
- I don’t understand this as much as others.
- I’m not a good writer.
- I’m a perfectionist, I would never publish.
- No one would read my blog.
- Blogs are too complicated.
I’ll leave it to you to click through for his counter-arguments to each. I’ll just note what I noted yesterday regarding Schlagel’s uncertainties: if I worried about these things, I would never get anything posted.
What’s interesting about coming back to blogging regularly, several times a time, every day, on a platform like Write.as where there’s no built-in social method of engagement, and only rudimentary stats for posts, is that from my perspective I am spitting into the void.
All you really have here (save for anything that might come in response by way of Write.as' public feed, except for that one user I’m ignoring) is yourself and your own motivations. What comes of those things either lands for other people, or it doesn’t, and, in fact, you might never know.