--- title: Writing Blockers date: "2020-04-18T13:08:00.000Z" description: | I want to write. Not neccessarily to be a writer, but to simply expose my opinion and thoughts on work and life. I generally find this hard. Here I identify those blockers; and aim to address them. --- I had a spate of writing from when I moved to London, until I finished a number of cycling challenges around 2013. I have always looked back with a fondness to write more, but always faced some challenges. Noted quickly, off the top of my head: - Subject matters - Caution of writing about proprietary stuff - Not having the time - Too difficult to get started - Feeling like what I have to say surely can't be important to anyone - So why bother writing in the first place - Timeliness I will write about these in the order that they are addressed. ## Timeliness I have often found there something sticky about writing a blog. Why is it dated and what if I wish to change my opinion on something. I've been inspired by [_My blog is a digial garden, not a blog (Joel Hooks)_][1] who was in turn inspired by [B*uilding a digital garden (Tom Critchlow*)][2]. What these 2 demonstrate is that there is another way to organise thoughts. Date is arbitrary in a way. I'm happy to write about something one day, but I expect to eventually change my mind, and want to be free to update the point-of-vew. From now on, this is not a blog. It is my _personal website_. Whatever that means. I don't even need to decide now, I'll come back to that! ## Too Difficult to Get Started I'll admit this next section may only be appropriate for those who know a bit of programming. I don't make it easy for myself... I write everything as _plain text_, if you are not sure what that looks like then take a quick look at this posts [raw content on GitHub][3]! You see what I mean? There is also a bit of house keeping in order to start a new post, not just a simple click of a button. Therefore I have written a script which quicklycreates a template for now posts - [check it out][4]! ## What I Say Isn't Important to Anyone All that matters from now in is whether I am interested in what I am writing. **More to come.** [1]: https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden [2]: https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/02/17/building-digital-garden/ [3]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattcanty/blog/master/content/blog/2020-04-18-writing-blockers/index.md [4]: https://github.com/mattcanty/blog/blob/master/new-post.sh