Void writing

So far I'm thoroughly enjoying my experiment with old-school blog writing. I'm finding daily writing to be a surprisingly easy habit to stick to. In less than a month, it has clearly improved the way that I capture ideas and work on them in my head so I can have something big enough to write about each day. The act of publishing comes somewhat after the fact. Since the main point of this work is for me to think deeply enough about something to put it down in writing, the mere act of putting it out onto the web doesn't change very much.

I do enjoy knowing that it is out there for someone to stumble across and see some of my thoughts as I'm working through them. Yet, there's something really satisfying about publishing into a void where you don't expect to receive even a single website visitor on any given day.

I think one of the reasons I'm enjoying this dynamic is that a lot of my writing in the past was done on platforms like Medium and Twitter where there were instant reactions. Someone could vehemently disagree with what you had to say and let you know about it almost in real-time. So from the moment you pressed publish, there was a bit of low level anxiety that someone would come and dunk on you for some reason. Writing into the void has none of that anxiety. You know that you are doing it for yourself and for yourself only. And in my opinion, this leads to more unique ideas as they are brought to life outside of the influences of social media.

Maybe all of that will change one day and I will have some type of readership on this personal blog. I'm not sure exactly how that would change the dynamic and how I enjoy the writing process, but for now, I'm pretty happy writing into the void.