[graystevens]

Well timed – I’ve been trying to get back into blogging, as a way of sharing and giving back, as well as improving my personal ‘brand’.

I was never really happy with the visual format of my site, which I think put me off writing at times - “if it were me, I’m not sure I’d read this in this format, it’s too visually taxing”. However with a quick style change to something much more basic, I’m feeling much more confident.

I think my final hurdle, which this article may help with, is my writing style. I get the impression that my ‘style’ changes fairly regularly, or depending on the topic or post I write for a different audience. This likely doesn’t matter too much for those visitors who come for a single post and move on, but anyone who would like to peruse around may get a slightly jarring experience.

[CM30]

This is a similar issue to my own one; I'm way too easy to distract with the promise of neat tech or extra features, so end up spending longer coding the site than actually writing anything on it.

Wonder how many other developers end up falling into that trap?

[Tallain]

I did, and realized that I'd spent all this time that was meant to be for writing on coding / finding cool tools / setting things up. Guilt overpowered the fun in this and I threw it all away and just installed Wordpress. I still play with the tech, but in a different time block, away from the writing itself.

[saagarjha]

You've basically summed up my experience: I just revamped my blog and pushed myself to put some content out, and now I'm much more receptive to putting stuff on it. Writing well is still difficult, though…