My Writing Struggle

Where Are the Posts? # When I first set up this blog I had big plans for it. I wanted to share my tinkering with technology and online privacy. The main goal was to educate and inform others. The first target was 10 articles in year one. I published 3. I missed the same goalpost the next year, and every year after. Why? Why can’t I write as much as I want? My High Bar # I’m not short of ideas. I have a stack of drafts sitting on the back burner — posts that didn’t make the cut. Wait, what cut? After some introspection I realized that I set the bar way too high for what makes a post worth publishing here. I have these arbitrary criteria that need to be cleared before I consider putting an article out there. Some are: The subject must be instructive, or at least useful. It has to be valuable to at least some readers. Technical walkthroughs and tutorial-style writing fit perfectly here — except I don’t always have a tutorial to publish, and that kind of writing takes a lot of time and…