Is it Time for me to Ditch Ulysses?
Over the last week or so I’ve been experimenting with Craft for writing. Scripts, Twitter threads, podcast episodes, and blog posts have all made their way into a new space I created explicitly for writing.
Should You Really Write in the WordPress Editor?
Earlier this week, my friend Justin Ferriman wrote a great post called Matt’s Page Builder, where he talks about the block editor trying to be two things: a place to write, and a page builder…and it’s more like the latter.
I’m in agreement. WordPress has considerably shifted from a simple blogging platform. Matt himself has said he wants it to be the, “operating system of the web,” which means a richer feature set, especially around creating and laying out content…but not necessarily writing.
But I’d argue that the WordPress editor has never really been the best place to write.
2019: The Year of New Content
My favorite podcast of 2018 was Cortex, a show hosted by Myke Hurley and CGP Grey about their working lives. Each year they decide to come up with yearly themes to help them guide their decision making, processes, and hopefully improve their overall lives. I’ve decided that I will also implement a theme for 2019 – and my theme is the year of new content.
I’m getting the itch to write another book. It’s been about 2 years since I really got into the groove of writing Responsive Design with WordPress and about a year and a half since it came out.
I’ve been kicking around a lot of ideas to coincide with other projects I’m working on, including 100 Words and TIL Podcast. Perhaps a book of short stories or something.
I do have other ideas for tech books – specifically WordPress – but I want to seek a broader audience. I’m not sure I’m ready to write a fiction book yet, but something with more appeal, definitely.
I will be doing a lot of writing this week. a lot of writing. WordCamp Scranton was over the weekend, so the last 2 weeks saw me immersed that. I was making sure the event went off without a hitch. It did.
That means there were a great many things I didn’t get to do, including tons of blog posts. I have a list. It’s long. Keep an eye out for these posts, as well as ones with more substance, and maybe even a review or two.
I will also get the sponsor and wrap posts up for WordCamp Scranton.
Writing is hard! Sure, knocking out 100 words here and there about some topic is relatively easy, but I mean really writing.
Over the weekend I wrote a 3000+ word article for a publication that I’ll be able to announce later this summer. It took me the better part of a working day to do it. Here’s why.
It’s not just, “write.” I need to outline, make sure the flow works, research, write, find images, test code (if needed), proofread, check word count, proof again.
I want to make sure the article is done well, and done right. Luckily, there are editors 🙂