Writing Self-Doubt

I should start writing articles. If this inane gibberish could get so much attention, I bet something I write could get just as much attention.

nope, i need advice from people who write content for themselves.

There’s a huge difference between “everything I write” and “everything I write on that blog”, but I agree. The readers here have shown some interest in what I write, and for that reason alone I continue to submit it for your judgement. Hopefully my writing will inspire someone to make something cool, or change their teaching style, or design a better programming language. Besides, this is the best platform on which I can promote the work I’ve been doing lately, and I have nothing else to promote

Review: The author uses this article to say why they're not writing as much as they want. They break it down into two reasons: self judgement of quality, and the quality bar set by articles and projects in their sphere of reading. It ends with having acknowledged the issues, the author is ready to write more.Opinion: having seen this with many friends I think the author does good to acknowledge it, but the main thing to figure out is why they're writing. To be prolific at writing d

I noticed years ago that I didn't have as much insight as other people who were much more close to the problems I was interested in. Even on non-technical topics, there was this realization I was just more noise in a sea of noise.So, ultimately, write if you want to write. But, ... be comfortable with the fact that you might just be noise. :-) If you find an audience, they will tell you what they find valuable or make requests on their own.

Post your writing. Get an editor. Get published.

I relate to this. I'm writing whatever scratches my itch, and most of the value comes from the writing itself.But, of course it'd be nice if some people read what I wrote? When I post to reddit or hn I get good traffic and some discussion, but that has all the problems you discuss.There are probably only a few dozen people who enjoy regularly reading this sort of content, they probably write too. I'd love to find them and start a private chat server where we could read each

Write something worth reading, then let other people worry about preserving it.

Not everyone writes something with the aim of being on HN or reddit or anything else. Sometimes people simply write for the joy of it and don't want to bother with server upkeep.

Author here. I'm going through the process of getting back into writing, so posting some of my own material sometimes to try to get an audience -- which I know is a bit awkward, but oh well. Hopefully it can be interesting for HN.Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!