Something I really appreciate about Bear Blog (and personal blogging in general) is that there’s no intended audience involved. When I write on here I’m just writing to write.

I’m trying to write a lot more in general. And publish what I write. I don’t know that I have a specific goal.1 Maybe write something every day and try to publish things every few days. Really my goal is just to write.

And with part of that goal, I’m trying to remind myself: don’t write for length.

When you’re writing an article for circulation or a memo for work or a blog post you want to rank for SEO there’s often a goal for a specific length. Maybe it’s 500 words. Maybe it’s 2 pages. It could be whatever.

But that concept shouldn’t apply to personal blogging. You should just write until you think you’ve made your point and then stop.

And I think I’ve made my point.2

  1. in Ulysses editor, I do have a “goal” of a bunch of words, and have written thousands this week. Most of that will never be published. I have no idea where that goal came from.↩

  2. see what I did there?↩