About reflections on writing

I love reading people talk about the craft of writing. I love reading people who have been doing this since long. I came across Dave, courtesy of one such post.

It speaks to my beliefs on the value of consistent effort and how hard work trumps talent every time.

I read today, Matt Webb’s Reflections on 25 years of Interconnected

Slowly, slowly, the web was taken over by platforms. Your feeling of success is based on your platform’s algorithm, which may not have your interests at heart. Feeding your words to a platform is a vote for its values, whether you like it or not. And they roach-motel you by owning your audience, making you feel that it’s a good trade because you get “discovery.” (Though I know that chasing popularity is a fool’s dream.)
Writing a blog on your own site is a way to escape all of that. Plus your words build up over time. That’s unique. Nobody else values your words like you do.
Blogs are a backwater (the web itself is a backwater) but keeping one is a statement of how being online can work. Blogging as a kind of Amish performance of a better life.

Twenty five years! I have been doing this for a year more or less. Blogging for lesser than that time. I hope to continue doing this for that long.

One thing I took from it was this idea of weekly writing being a thing that is important. Streaks are important. When wanting something to become a habit, I believe it needs to be done regularly. But it is important to give yourself some leeway. So, having two day gap is OK. Not more than that.

When it comes to writing, I try to do it everyday. But sometimes I am not able to. And that should be OK too. The weekly streak makes more sense to me than a daily one. It allows me to fail, without feeling as if it’s the end of the world.