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The internet, Medium in specific, is full of articles discussing how every blogger should write and publish daily. While I’m a big fan of writing and see many benefits in writing, I don’t believe it makes much of sense for amateur bloggers to force themselves to write and publish every day. Especially if the contents they produce are highly technical. To me, writing and/or publishing every day are all fun and cool if you have a full-time career as a professional writer.
In the following sections, I discuss why it makes no sense to write every day as an amateur technical blogger
Writing as a hobby
To me and many others who have technical blogs, writing is just a hobby. We just write for the sake of fun of it and sharing the knowledge. There is no intention other than that. Yes, it could also count as a positive point in our CVs but most of us are not seeking to make a living from blogging. As long as we earn the maintenance cost of our blogs, we are happy.
So it makes sense to just blog whenever we feel it. Or whenever, we feel we have something to write about.
Writing is time-consuming
Most of us have a full-time career which is not related to writing. And since most of us are not used to the habit of writing, it takes much more time to articulate a presentable piece. For instance, it took an entire weekend for me to write, Running FreeBSD on
Hence, with the limited free time and too many responsibilities, it is not just feasible to write and publish every day.
In order to write we need to learn and experiment first
To write a technical piece, we need to be expert at the topic as well as having hands-on experience. And to accomplish those, we need to learn and then practice. The last step would be putting pieces together to produce a sensible post that guides readers in their learning process.
And guess what, all learnings require time. For example, it is impractical to write about Linux memory management without knowing it or at least read a couple of articles and analyze each and every one of them.
Sometimes YouTube is a superior media
Sometimes making a YouTube video is more effective and easy than writing a blog post about it. This is especially true when it comes to technical tutorials, like learning how to code in Java.
Additionally, a YouTube video gets more attraction than a blog post, even in Medium, as most people are more interested in watching stuff than reading.
To conclude this post, I would like to give some advice to other amateur technical bloggers like myself.
Firstly, don’t feel obligated to publish anything. Publish at your own comfortable pace.
Secondly, take into consideration quality, not quantity. A worth reading piece often discusses details and nuances. So put quality before quantity. Even if you are looking for fame, keep in mind that most of the time, a single strong article makes someone famous, not tons of superficial ones.
Last but not least, do not get disappointed if you don’t get many readers or even feedback from readers. We are living in an information overloading era. Appearing on the first page of Google result search is getting more and more competitive and difficult. Add to that, laziness of people. Nowadays barely anyone goes through even the first five pages of Google result search. Just don’t care about analytics, write just for fun of it.
Keep in mind most of the people in the technical world are just seeking quick solutions to their problems. Once they find their answers, they will close the browser tab almost instantly. So it is normal to expect a much lower amount of interaction and feedback from readers.
