How do you push yourself to start publishing?
Hi fellows!
I had been writing a little to the blog before. It was thoughts, ideas, sometimes blog itself updates or updates in my life. I did not do much, but it was interesting. I don't know, maybe because I was young and full of energy. But then it was easy, just write and publish.
Now I have tons of drafts in the Notion, Ulysses (now migrated to Notion as well), but something stops me to get these articles published. It looks like usual procrastinating. When you decide to finish any post, you start looking for how to improve this and that things on the website, or you're just upset because the blog has outdated styles or whatever.
Have you even got the same feeling? How you fight with that?
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I would adopt a mindset that it's consistency that matters the most regardless of quality.
I know it sounds counterintuitive, but the problem is, even something you produce that's your magnum opus will be not very good if you're just starting out, so it's much better to fail and learn when you're small than when you're big.
Furthermore, I find it's less important what your blog content is and moreso how your market your blog.
Good content attracts visitors of course, but you don't know 100% what is good and what is not, but the more content you release consistently, you'll be able to tell much better and refine.
Plus, there's always a higher chance you win the lottery the more you play.
For example, I'm currently trying to build a community on twitter to build up hype for my AI API. My posts are not deeply insightful, nor do they offer anything groundbreaking, but I am consistent.
Same here, I offer basic advice and participation to people here and I'm consistent with it.
If you're curious and want to see more how I do outreach and promote, feel free to follow on https://twitter.com/TheRealEtch
Likewise, you can also follow here: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/evoke
Good luck!
And if you could post your blog here, that would be nice. I'd like to see it.
Thank you for support and good examples. Indeed, consistency is very important, and I understand it and seems I am afraid of responsibility. In other words, if I start writing, readers waits the next post but if I can not produce it by any reason, I failed. And it scares to start. Solution is in preparing some posts for ahead publishing to have a time gap and be safe if something goes not by plan.
Absolutely. I think it also helps to plan your posts so if anything comes up, you won't be stuck thinking of content to write on a busy day.
Just remember that readers don't really care if your next post comes late. You're not writing a novel that millions of readers are waiting for the sequel for, you're just writing a blog post.
I would say if you're at the stage where you've got an entire audience waiting on your nexxt post that'll be frustrated if it comes late, you're already extremely successful because you have that many people caring about your product.