[sshine]

> Anyone have any tips that worked for getting over this hurdle?

Since nobody suggested this:

Write for yourself, locally. This removed my writer's block.

After writing for myself for about a year, I blogged consistently for two years.

I've since lost the kadence and want to get back to it, but now priorities have come in the way.

Now I usually write for my local tech community.

I know there's a dozen people who like to learn things if there's an easy way. That motivates me a lot

There's another hurdle of having a clear idea of the target audience; when you're the target audience, it gets a little fuzzy. So it has helped me to think of either "what I'd like to read 6 months from now if I had to learn this after partially forgetting it". Or someone else concrete I'm not actually obligated to share my writing with. Just so I can aim my writing better.

[bluecoconut]

I write for myself a lot, roughly ~5000 words a day in notes, messages to self, etc. I have no problem writing and talking to myself.

It's the editing process and formalizing it for public consumption.

Either, the actual work of doing the cleanup feels too labor intensive, or I've already moved onto the next obsession, and am chasing that new idea.

Do you have a process for turning the local writing into more public writing?

[kccqzy]

I think what blurs the line between local writing and public writing is that you just publish it after minimal editing with no fanfare. No RSS feeds for people to subscribe to. No posting on HN or Reddit where plenty of people are judgmental. Just make it public. If people chance upon it let them read it; just don't purposefully attract people to read it.

[swapxstar]

That’s really cool that you can write like that, I would really like to know more about how and what you mean by write for myself writing.

Can you share more about what you write?

[james_marks]

At the risk of sounding LLM-obsessed, this sounds like a great use-case for Claude.

Even when your input is incoherent, it’s often enough to get the AI in the right direction, and then it’s easier to edit.

[pas]

well, it is work. quite a lot!

when you feel you want to "write more online" what do you want? why do you want to write online? do you want to participate in some discourse? understand a topic, do a deep dive? communicate something? do you want fiction or non-fiction writing?

[imtringued]

Unless you are writing a book nobody cares. Even if you have a beautifully written blog post, people will forget about it the day after, or next week or next month. They won't remember any details. Just don't make any jarring mistakes like grammar or abrupt jumps.

Even if you intend to write a book, you should just treat your blog as a bunch of notes.