Journalists can have ephemera be their primary product, because they enjoy the (declining) subsidy that comes from monopolistic permission to deliver ads to the entire middle class population of an area in the expectation that those ads will be read. You're not a journalist.
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I perennially struggle with two facets of this advice: a) An increasing portion of my written output is siloed into places where O(1k) people will be able to read it, and while I made that bargain willingly it's a careful balancing act b) Twitter feels just so fun to write.
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Think of how much easier high school essay writing would have been if, after writing any sentence, you started getting a stream of feedback from sends "Ooh great sentence; come on, give me another one."
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I struggle with this. Twitter is a great forum for quickly broadcasting ideas, but tweets are *very* ephemeral. But I don't have time to turn good tweets into blog posts, and creating a blog post that's just a list of tweets feels like cheating. I feel stuck in a local maxima. =\
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I hear you. (For what it's worth, I think that podcasts are a reasonably good form factor which produces non-ephemera without costing the prodigious activation energy of producing meaningful written artifacts. Also, unlike every form of writing ever, they're a bounded commitment)
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I've been writing for >40 years now, first pro sale >20 years ago, full time for several years now. The stuff I write that I believe is 100% unsaleable? Yeah, that's my best-selling work. Every. Single. Time.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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That was Heinlein's policy.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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