1. I get fascinated by some idea, start dumping notes about it, and over time turn them into a text - often in burst sessions where I output a lot of text, and then it either goes immediately up, or (if I care more) I let it lie for a few days, and then review and edit it.
2. Back when I was a kid and was learning programming to make games, everyone in the local gamedev scene had a "dev blog", so I wanted to have one too.
3. I don't. Every now and then I feel I finally have something to write about (see point 4.), and when that feeling becomes overwhelming, I sit down and craft a post.
4. I didn't. The main struggle I have now: I feel I have nothing to write about that isn't already written much better by people much smarter than me. I don't feel the need to write for myself only - I have a folder named "mind-dumps" full of .org files, into which I stream my thoughts regularly. So if I want to publish something on my blog, I have to feel it's a contribution to the greater web of information. Curiously, I didn't have this problem as a kid - I'd just write down the things I've learned, mostly to show off to my friends who also had dev blogs and also wrote about things they've learned.
1. I get fascinated by some idea, start dumping notes about it, and over time turn them into a text - often in burst sessions where I output a lot of text, and then it either goes immediately up, or (if I care more) I let it lie for a few days, and then review and edit it.
2. Back when I was a kid and was learning programming to make games, everyone in the local gamedev scene had a "dev blog", so I wanted to have one too.
3. I don't. Every now and then I feel I finally have something to write about (see point 4.), and when that feeling becomes overwhelming, I sit down and craft a post.
4. I didn't. The main struggle I have now: I feel I have nothing to write about that isn't already written much better by people much smarter than me. I don't feel the need to write for myself only - I have a folder named "mind-dumps" full of .org files, into which I stream my thoughts regularly. So if I want to publish something on my blog, I have to feel it's a contribution to the greater web of information. Curiously, I didn't have this problem as a kid - I'd just write down the things I've learned, mostly to show off to my friends who also had dev blogs and also wrote about things they've learned.