First blog post

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+# Amaury's Blog
+
+A blog where I try to find what I'm interested in.
+
+## Posts

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+title: "Write as you are"
+date: 2023-11-23T09:28:59+01:00
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+---
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+I started 2 blogs previously. I started each time with a general topic that I was interested in, then wrote articles related to said topic. Over time, I realized that I was less and less motivated to write, to a point where the experience became tedious and dreadful, and I was forcing myself to artificially find new ideas. Both blogs are now archived.
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+This is my 3rd attempt at writing a blog. And I will try a different approach, a bottom-up one. I read Henrik Karlsson's [A blog post is a very long and complex search query [...]](https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query), and it motivated me to start writing again, on new terms.
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+Following below are my terms.
+
+## Write whenever, whatever I feel like
+
+The first change is that this blog doesn't have a clear topic. I'm currently interested in a bunch of topics, so I'll write about a bunch of topics. I think writing about aha moments should be a good start, as proposed by Henrik:
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+> You ask yourself: What would have made me jump off my chair if I had read it six months ago (or a week ago, or however fast you write)? If you have figured out something that made you ecstatic, this is what you should write.
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+Obviously, don't expect these ecstatic moments to happen at regular intervals.
+
+## Focus on writing, not on being read
+
+The author continues by saying that my blog will probably be boring to a huge majority of the internet.
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+> You will write essays that almost no one likes... Luckily, almost no one multiplied by the entire population of the internet is plenty if you can only find them.
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+While I totally welcome meaningful relationships created on the internet with random strangers that share my unique set of interests, and I'm happy the author managed to forge some, I also have even lower expectations than him. I'm hoping that just _forming the words_ helps me shape myself, regardless of whether it involves other people.
+
+## Change my "mental audience"
+
+In my previous blogs, I noticed I was aiming to reach a broad audience. Probably I thought that it would result in my blog getting popular. In the writing process, since this imaginary audience didn't have all the context, I would try to explain myself a lot. It resulted in the essays being long, shallow, and/or generic.
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+> If you, like me, have been stuck writing and it’s slow and ends up bland, I can recommend just changing the mental “audience”. Just assume you’re talking to someone who really gets you – perhaps your younger self or a nerdy friend. Don’t be defensive, trying to convince a hypothetical, hyper-intelligent skeptic. - [HN commenter](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38140716)
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+This time, I'll just write the exact words that go through my mind, with little context-setting. My audience will be my own self 6 months ago, as proposed by Henrik:
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+> And you do not dumb it down, because you were not stupid six months ago, you just knew less.
+
+Let's see how this goes.