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My best advice for writing more online is that it's crucial that you learn to hit publish while you're still unhappy with what you've written.

If you strive for perfection in your writing you will inevitably end up with a folder full of hundreds of drafts (I still have one of those) and a blog with no content.

A key thing to remember is that no-one else will ever know how great the thing you wanted to write would have been!

You might find your post thoroughly disappointing because of all of that missed potential... but other people who read it and learn something will be thankful that you posted it.

This is one of the big reasons I'm such a fan of the "TIL" (Today I Learned) format: it reduces the bar for writing about something to "did I recently learn a new thing?"



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