There are days that I can spend two hours trying to get a piece of content onto the page.
There were times where I spent a couple of days trying to find out enough info to write a simple blog post.
Those were the good old times however when I had a whole day to myself and could spend my time searching the web for new ideas and new projects to dive into.
Nowadays it's more about consistency and clarity than big blog posts.
There is a place for those too but unfortunately it's not on Hive. They are not needed or appreciated. If quality and quantity were directly related to rewards then we would be having a different beast but for the moment it's about who you know and what community you are trying to appeal to.
I'm currently watching the latest United match and have 15 minutes between halves to put together a blog post and keep my streak going since the new year.
It's been a long time since I could put seven posts in a row together and longer still since I had the time to do a big background job on them.
So instead to keep my mind moving and fresh it's more a matter of writing whats around me and what I know. What's going through my head and what I can put into a slightly legible text.
Too many nights i've sat here with the intention to write something. Spent an hour trying to find something to write and then leaving it off in the end when I couldn't get my mind moving.
Practice makes things easier because repetition builds understanding and confidence. When we practice a skill, our brain creates stronger connections, so actions feel more natural over time.
Small consistent actions are worth more over time than one big effort that isn't followed up on. And what's easier is more enjoyable. I hate wasting my time trying to write instead of actually writing content.
What can you write in 15 minutes??
A lot apparently.
In 15 minutes, you can typically write 500–1,000 words of clear, well-structured text.
The exact number depends on what you want:
- Simple content (stories, basic explanations): closer to 1,000 words
- More thoughtful or precise writing (essays, arguments): around 500–700 words
- Highly technical or creative polishing: fewer words, but higher quality
Now is it valuable content as the powers that be often preach about? Probably not to you or to them but to me it's valuable content as it keeps me writing and involved on the chain.
If you don't want to read it then feel free to skip it over or to ignore it and that's every persons right. But it's also my right to access the chain and to shit my thoughts all over the page.
We have never created the right incentives to build a site of valuable and interesting content.
The reward system actually discourages this type of writing by top loading the newest stuff and killing off content after seven days when it could be marketed and build enough momentum to be seen by a wider audience.
There is also no incentives to share the content with a wider audience as all the reward comes from being see by a few bigger internal accounts or being curated by one of the whales. It's how the system is set up and one of the greatest flaws in it.
So you can get through a lot of though in 15 minutes apparently and explore multiple themes while moving the mind and the fingers. Maybe not quite the thousand words suggested above but a very respectable 750 when I get going.
Now half time is over so back to the main event of the night and I'll check back in again after.