Less douchy title: How to write more.

What I do to write more:

  1. Dump all my thoughts on Twitter threads: Unfiltered ramblings just to get out my thoughts on a topic. Then I copy paste the thread content on a draft email. All my draft posts are on gmail.
  • People think I spend a lot of time writing online, be it on Twitter or my blog. It is not true. I have been writing online for 10+ years. Started with a campus satire blog called Tamatar News. Once something becomes a habit, it is very easy to do it on autopilot without thinking about it.
    1. Thought dump on Inkpad. I use Inkpad for notetaking. I keep thinking about all sorts of topics. I will have an idea about how to build a new on demand marketplace at midnight, and considering I don’t have access to Twitter to thought dump then, I would just add it to Inkpad.
    2. Take notes whenever I am consuming podcasts/articles/books.
    3. Turn templates I use at work into blogposts.
    4. Add notes from interesting discussions I have with friends and mentors.
    5. When I am feeling lazy, I use voice notes.
    6. Thought dumping and editing happens in separate sessions. Hence you will see me add threads I wrote weeks back into blogposts much later.
    7. Focus on reducing friction in my writing process. If I plan to sit and write a post, I know I will never get it done. So I find it easier to just dump all my thoughts without worrying about the end result.
    8. Accept your strengths help. I know that I will never have the patience or rigor to write like Ben Thompson. Hence I default to what I call “unfiltered thoughts.” These can be thought of as rough notes for myself. My writing style is also pretty simple.
    9. Once I post a blogpost, I might edit it based on feedback from friends.
    10. Hate proofreading. So all posts will have typos and grammatical errors. I fix them ove time.
    11. Most of my posts are thoughtdumps. Hence I sometimes overshare info about my personal life/ feel guilty about writing on some sensitive topic/ get too blunt. In those cases I just edit my writings later.
    12. All my posts are live posts. I keep adding more content/editing them for years.
    13. I overindex on getting something I wrote out fast.
    14. Use bullet points because figuring out structure of a post is too much effort.
    15. People think I spend a lot of time writing online, be it on Twitter or my blog. It is not true. I have been writing online for 10+ years. Started with a campus satire blog called Tamatar News. Once something becomes a habit, it is very easy to do it on autopilot without thinking about it.
  • Writing a shit post: One minute.
  • 5 shit posts a day = 5 minutes.
  • A thread (mostly unplanned, based on vibe and something that is more of a thought dump): 15 mins.
  • Turning the thread into a post: Another 15 mins.
  • Total time = Less than an hour everyday.
  • I honestly spend far more time getting pissed off at replies from people who come to argue with me online, but that is another story.