preface
Before writing this article, I have tried many times and failed, and maybe this time will not be my last, but it has been a whim before, and I hope this time will be a good start.
I’ve wanted to blog for a long time, and I’ve done countless blogs, but I’ve built more blogs than I’ve written. Some blog platforms are estimated to have no history of people may not have heard of, before also toss, Baidu space, 72 pine and so on, back and forth no more than a dozen times.
- Self-built website
- WordPress
- Github Pages
- Various third-party blogging platforms
Spending more time choosing blogging platforms than writing articles is putting the cart before the horse, but that’s not to say nothing, at least Makrdown syntax.
So this time, at least I wrote this article with Markdown first, and then I chose the blogging platform.
Make up his mind to
People do not make decisions without reason. The reason why I made up my mind to write technical blog this time is also the bottleneck of my recent career. It is not that I am not serious in my work, but that I lack too much in-depth thinking about technology, which leads to the narrowing of the industry and technology stack.
Recently, I tried to submit a resume, a more comprehensive and objective understanding of myself, found that their technical shortcomings are still very obvious. So I made up my mind to improve myself. After a few years, I know that the most important thing of technology blog is persistence.
Find motivation first
It’s important to find your own motivation for writing. It’s easy to get lost when you start blindly and write for the sake of writing. This is the main reason WHY I’ve failed in the past. I’ve heard people say tech blogs are great, and I’ve had a lot of fun, but it didn’t work out.
Tap into your inner motivator
This time, I paid more attention to the internal motivation, rather than the external influence, to correct their own mentality.
What are the external factors influencing, for example:
- In order to make money someone said how much money writing blog, tempted, want to make money by writing blog, at this time, your mind is full of thinking, what kind of article can make money, do not make money to give up. I’m not saying wanting to make money is bad, but it’s best not to use it as your motivator in the first place, because it takes a lot more work to make money than you think.
- In order to interview similarly, if in order to show the interviewer, it is also easy to cause a running account, only looking at the quantity not the quality, or easy to become plagiarism, into a formalism.
The following is my own thinking and summary of the writing motivation.
1. Help yourself to understand the technical points more deeply
This should be my main driving force, I have started a short period of technical learning, some notes, and some small cases of practice, but sometimes I still feel a little understanding, and then I will Google this knowledge difficulty how others understand. Very interesting, the same knowledge, ways of understanding different people is different, but I can feel the moment they write, is deep the digestion, addressed to himself and to others look can be very different, so I think through writing output reversed transmission technology to understand more deeply, so as to let yourself go further.
2. Share your solutions
As an engineer, there are always various problems. With the increase of work experience and the deepening of business, there are many problems that have no standard answers. Sometimes when I find an idea, I feel enlightened. In addition, you may be able to interact with others, have better solutions, or be able to point out some mistakes, further improve and deepen the problem solving ability.
3. Improve your writing skills
- Short term: for programmers, document writing is actually a technical activity, improve writing skills, there is no harm.
- Long term: Technology is hard power, hard power is important, but soft power, such as: management, product thinking, writing, etc., is also important, these soft skills are like a few eggs you bury, over time, they may one day take root, make you become a different person.
4. Supplement your resume
Indeed, this is a utilitarian motive, but IT is indeed the problem I have encountered in the interview. If I do not have a good work background and educational background to support, the resume is indeed a weak link. If I have a good technical blog, it will make my monotonous resume a beautiful landscape.
More and more interviews now require personal blogs or open source projects. I also have experience as an interviewer. If a candidate offers a technical blog, I will give it a priority. Also, for the vast majority of techies without a good background or degree, tech blogging is one of the cheapest ways to get ahead (the other two being relationships and open source projects).
In addition:
Yes, I have given up my goal of making money, and I have no intention of building my own personal brand. Too much emphasis on reading will make me lose sight of the core motivation of writing, and if I start too high, I will be disappointed and give up easily. Why not set a simpler goal?
As a writer, it is easy to write, without so much burden, too much pressure will be difficult to continue.
Identify the scope of your writing
I have tried to write many times before, but it was very difficult to write, mainly because I didn’t know what to write. It was too shallow and not good enough, too deep and too difficult.
So identifying your writing scope is the second most important thing to do, and since you’ve already had a very clear motivation to write, that scope is probably defined.
- First of all, I am studying the technical knowledge points that are difficult for me to understand – the understanding process of sharing my knowledge and difficulties. For example, I am systematically learning the whole front-end knowledge, so it must be the front-end difficulties. For these writing words, I don’t care about whether there are enough similar articles already. Of course, I will refer to other well-written articles, but WHAT I care more is whether I have a deep understanding of the premise, and write in a better way.
- Then there are the solutions to the difficulties I encountered at work – Share your solutions to the problems where there are problems, there are solutions to the problems. If it is a random Google answer, there is no need to write, of course, it is a bit difficult a bit of depth of things, in addition, because it is to provide others to use, will pay more attention to, logical rigorous, feasibility and other engineering considerations.
- Early adopters of new technologyShare your exploration of the unknown
This kind of article can serve as a technical personnel’s current affairs information, mainly to introduce and experience, of course, can give their own opinion is the best.- First of all, I can keep myself sensitive to the development of new technology and cultivate my learning ability so as not to fall behind too much.
- Secondly, the emergence of new technologies is to solve the problems that can not be solved now, writing such an article can let me have more thinking, rather than blindly pursuing new technologies
- In addition, you can write some workplace, technology, or life experience to come back later, perhaps a different experience, but also let others have a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of their own
Writing planning
Once you’ve identified your goals and scope, you’ve made a good start. Now it’s time to execute.
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First of all, I straighten out my mentality. Writing is a continuous process of improvement, so that I can write in a more comfortable state, which is more important than anything else.
Before they tried to push yourself too tight, challenged the Jane books more, when I insist on less than a month, I gave up, insist on, in addition to let you feel very hard, but the actual watch I wrote those without a laundry list of quality, it doesn’t make any sense, I just for the sake of writing writing, Jane books filled with these types of articles.
But it’s not too freewheeling, and for beginners, there’s a bit of discipline and planning.
Set a small goal
I set myself a small goal (Flag) to update one article every week.
Set yourself a small goal that is moderate, not too difficult, not too loose. I think a week is appropriate, I have enough time to think about what to write, and I can also have enough time to go into depth.
Now the second half of 2019 is coming. If I can keep it up, I will have about 20 articles by 2020, which I think is quite impressive. Blindly chasing quantity is not a good thing.
If I write to a certain extent now, may be relaxed quantity, is not more write more frequent? Why are you writing less and less? In the beginning, there were a lot of difficulties to write, but after breaking them down one by one, in fact, the inspiration began to lack, after all, if they are all the same, it would be boring to watch.
Learn some tips for writing
As a beginner, this is not the most important, but in advance of some small skills training, can make their writing more fluent. The easiest thing to do is to read good articles and learn their structure. You can also look at some of the writing skills summed up by others, for example, a good outline of the article in advance, how to decide the title and so on.
Write the last words
Let go of instant gratification. Writing is something with little short-term gain and great long-term gain. But people tend to overestimate short-term benefits and underestimate long-term benefits.
I have worked for many years, but I am only a small white here in the front, in writing is a small white, there is no doubt that the front of the article will be bad quality, or writing is not good, but people always have a start, zero mentality is very important. If I wanted everything to be ready, I would always be in a state where I had never started, where I would fall into the trap of never starting, where I would feel that it was too late, that it was too late to try again.
There is a good saying:
The best time to plant a tree was ten years ago. The next best time to plant a tree is now.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Why not write your first blog now?
Thanks for the thought: the tech blog thing