Thoughts from HWC Writing October 2026

Went to Homebrew Writing Club — Writing Edition today, which raised a lot of thoughts: I’m curious what makes writers choose a particular format for an idea? (e.g. blog post versus comic versus zine versus poetry) how much of working in a format is learning what ideas suit it, and figuring out an approach to starting a piece in that format? (e.g. I wouldn’t know how to approach writing a poem) James mentioned “remixing” several blog posts into a new post — I might try this to extract good ideas from old, not-that-good posts I wrote in the early years of this site that I don’t want to link to 🤔 (Joe described this as thinking of “your own output as a kind of library”) I realized that when writing a new post, I lean on hypertext and tend to reference previous ideas very briefly with a link — but that it might be more useful (both to readers and myself) to reiterate the point succinctly — as writers, we may be overcautious of repeating ourselves; readers might even appreciate refreshers.…