(Soliciting feedback rather than making an offer just yet but) would any of you be interested if I were to do some coaching/workshops about writing, with a specific focus on how to write more and in ways that are useful to you rather than some abstract notion of quality?
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My main goals in doing this are actually to get people to the "write copiously privately" stage, so I might not be of much help, but if I go ahead with this plan it'd still be interesting to talk about what's blocking you from public writing.
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Actually, disregard that, the question of how to help people go from private to public writing is totally something I'm interested in, I just don't currently think I have much good advice.
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(That is, if the thing I am considering goes ahead, I *would* like to talk about it, but more in a sense of hearing your perspective than because I think I can help much)
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Am also curious about my own reasons, as in, I haven’t talked about or looked at this much. Just hasn’t been priority- which may in itself be the primary obstacle.
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Yeah, "It's not actually a priority" is often the true reason people aren't doing things. Good that you can admit that! It's surprisingly rare to be willing to.
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Sorry, that sounded less condescending in my head.
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Didn’t sound at all condescending to me! Just a fact.
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Ah, interesting, I also had a lot of trouble writing publicly. Managed to solve it by writing under a pseudonym that clearly signals 'this might be crappy', and then merging it back into my IRL identity... no idea if this is a good strategy in general but worked for me!
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My basic position is that any strategy that increases the amount you write is a good one.
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BTW I should have said - as well as valuing effectiveness, I actually specifically like the "writing under a pseudonym that signals that it might be crappy" strategy. I think you undersell your writing by doing that, but I can see why that would be psychologically helpful to do.
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Yeah - I don't really feel the need to signal that so much any more, but I like the name so I'm sticking with it!
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That's entirely fair!
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