RE Wanting to Write More

In their article "Wanting to Write More", Toronto blogger Joshua Maynard, mentions feeling like they're running out of things to say here which, in all honesty, is something I've struggled with in the past too. I have a couple of pieces of advice that may or may not be useful to Joshua or others. Regularity My most consistent posting on this website is my weeknotes which I've posted every Sunday for three years but my (occasionally daily) volume of posting actually started with Friday Random Ten — a low-stakes weekly (or whenever) "challenge" that made me rethink what my website was about. And encouraged a cadence. The fixed structure of the post allowed me to add as little or as much personal flavour to it as I felt capable of doing without "breaking" the format. Cringe Kill not that part of you which is cringe but, instead, kill that part that cringes This is where all that professional advice about just write comes in. I had a backlog of drafts seeking perfection and a knot of…