having 25 years of body of work is incredibly inspiring. i have been blogging irregularly since... 2004? but sadly some is lost to time before like 2009 or 2011. i definitely want to get back to it again more.
my absolute top tip would be to find your super low-friction way to capture ideas about what to write, wherever you are, the very second the idea occurs to you
idea capture is upstream of everything else. you can do drafting or editing a month later or a year later, when the mood comes
I wrote a Colophon recently about my blog tech stack. it includes a "Writing" section which touches on how I start with idea capture (and also the psychological blockers about doing everything else)
simonw|1 year ago
I restored some of my content from there a few years ago: https://simonwillison.net/2017/Oct/8/missing-content/
genmon|1 year ago
idea capture is upstream of everything else. you can do drafting or editing a month later or a year later, when the mood comes
I wrote a Colophon recently about my blog tech stack. it includes a "Writing" section which touches on how I start with idea capture (and also the psychological blockers about doing everything else)
https://interconnected.org/home/2024/10/28/colophon
yapyap|1 year ago