@lmika One huge question is the definition of 'good'. 😆 One of my favourite parts of my own blog is On This Day where I see what I wrote on the same date in previous years. I almost never think: "What a rubbish post". I almost always think: "Wow, how interesting / oh yes … I did that / that thing happened".
@Miraz I wish I can say the same thing about the old posts I've written. I guess I can chalk this up to partly being relatively new to this, partly being my own worst critic, and partly just knowing that if you aim to post here daily, there will be posts that are just not as good as others (usually on the days where I haven't felt like writing anything at all). I hope this improves with practice and time. I get the feeling that it will, since I've been a little prouder with the more recent posts I've written.
@lmika I'm really struggling with micro.blog posting myself. I'm also my worst critic and I constantly think I have nothing worthwhile to say. I can write heaps as long as no one else is going to see it, but the moment I set out to do an actual post I freeze.
@lmika I think there can be a slippery slope when it comes to not posting things because it's "not high-quality enough", where you can gradually have your standards increase to the point that almost nothing is "high-quality enough". I've never been game to set myself a "post something every day" challenge, because there are just some days I really don't feel like it, but otherwise I don't set my standards too high for what I post. The realisation that I could mix microblog-length posts into a "real blog" (which in itself is a dubious term, but anyway...) was a real revelation for me 😊
@JohnAN @lmika .. advice from my mum .. who was never a blogger - but a big letter writer …
When I left home she told me that she wrote to her mum once a week for years - and that I should do the same - regardless of whether I felt that I had something to say … because .. she said … if I wait until I have something important to say .. nothing will seem important enough … but if I wrote regularly .. there is always something to say … and something in each letter will be interesting to her.
@JohnPhilpin @lmika I love your mum's advice, John. I used to love writing letters (I'm that old), and I never had a problem with content because I felt free then to say anything. It helped, of course, knowing the person I was writing to. Blogging seems much more daunting, but I'm working on it.
@jayeless Slopes don't come much slipperier. It's easier, by default, to do nothing, and that fear grows with each hesitation. How's the weather in Melbourne today? My granddaughter lives there.
@jayeless Yes, that's my feeling as well. And I agree that being able to mix long-form posts with short ones has helped a lot.
@JohnAN Well, it's been a warm night, and now we've had a warm morning too, but we're due to get a cool change in the next couple of hours :)