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I've recently pruned many of my old posts, after doing a quality check. Some were something that wasn't worth-reading, not leaving you with a sense of "oh! didn't know that! awesome that I learnt something new about X", something which I strive to achieve from now on, on my new posts. Of course, I can't always achieve that, so there'll be some ramblings here and there.
I wrote many of the posts just for the sake of writing that day, not that I felt inspired or the need to write that day, which as I later realised it's the wrong mentality for a blog. From now on, the blog will be more of a self-reflection journal and memory bank, things that help me over all. I'm happy that someone else can take and be influenced by an idea I put on the table. Even if the post inspired one reader, it's a great thing.
The "I need to get something out for today" mentality is not good for the quality of the content at all, this being the reason for removing some of my old posts, as I think they were subpar compared to my other posts. This blog won't be something static, posts that aren't worthy will come and go. You're free to archive one if you like it though. I didn't delete them, just archived, so I might bring them back at a later date.
Another thing which I find hard, is striking the balance between writing something long and useful. I try to make my posts medium to long, as I think we cannot express all of our ideas in micro blogs, and they don't allow you to be coherent and it forces you to break up ideas into 250 characters. But then I encountered another problem which is that if I want to write something long I usually just repeat an idea and it gets useless really quick. I don't want to produce something useless, or really short, so from now on I'll just say what I have to say and end it there, even if it's shorter than usual. Quality over quantity is a motto I'll try to apply to my writings.
I've seen quite a few other respectable people on Gemini with writing schedules. I personally don't find the point in doing that, because you'll just force yourself to produce subpar content as explained above. I find it better to just write when you feel like writing, not after a schedule. We aren't at work after all, and writing would become bothersome, instead of being a relaxing activity. From now on I write whenever I feel like doing it, thus I'm not churning out useless posts like it's a WWW blog. Although I do see the advantages of a writing schedule on something private, for example for a journal, as I do that myself. It's good for keeping yourself accountable, but in a journal you can just write anything that is on your mind and that does the purpose, on a blog, in my opinion, it's a difference as you must first make the idea understandable by others.
If anyone has criticism or any other ideas they'll like to add about the matter at hand, or anything else, I invite you to make a reply or e-mail me: masqqgemini@proton.me
We can have constructive discussions that help us all.