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Writing?!

Hey all. My first post!

I see many founders are writing - a lot. They are posting here in IH, updating blogs or putting articles on medium. I totally understand that writing is important and needed to drive attention to your product.

As an indie hacker how do you find the time?! Between paying jobs and building my own product I literally have no time for writing or updating. At least I don't think I do ;)

Some questions:

How do you find the time?
How do you choose what to write about?
Is it for you to get off your chest or a marketing tool?
Where to write - blog vs. Medium vs. IH?
Do you schedule it?

on October 28, 2019
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    I built a muscle, with time, to write every time my mood changes. Not necessarily negative change, any.

    I don't write every day. But I write at about 10k words every month, in private or public content. I wrote an article last month about my process of finding topics to write about, you can read it here.

    It also answers the question of where to write. In the end, it depends on the message you want to pass to your audience. Scheduling for me is just for Tweets (which I see also as content in some form).

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    Hey Barry,

    I am just taking quick notes whenever something comes to my mind. I am using Workflowy for this kind of usecase. It is great for jotting down quick ideas and notes. After work I quickly scan through my notes looking for some stuff I can focus on. At weekends I just take some time, sit down and start working on my notes figuring out what I could write about. Throughout my week I am gathering a load of notes. That is also the reason why I do not need that long to write a blog post, since most of the time I can combine some notes and build up the blog post from that. I usually write about my side-projects, but also some general thoughts about news from the design and tech field.

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      Thanks Philip. Workflowly looks like something I need! Thanks for the tip I’ll get it set up today. Are you writing on a personal blog or a company blog?

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        I am writing on a personal blog. Before that I was running an online magazine about design, architecture, art, photography, and wrote about 3-5 articles a week, but just as a side-project. I shut that down back in July since I wanted to focus on different things. I also worked on my personal blog and just launched it back in September. Since Workflowy makes it super easy for me to take some quick notes no matter where I am or what device I use, I am super motivated to getting back to the joy of writing and blogging, since it is an incredible creative process for me.

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    Hi Barry!
    I am new to writing for my startup - but I’m trying to have a target no of posts a week.
    As for the subjects, I have a list of ideas / rough outlines that I add to from time to time. Often I go back to it the next day and just raise my eyebrow and delete it though 😅.
    It’s a marketing tool, but I am looking to also write more authentic content about my journey.
    I’m writing on medium at least until I get a user / reader base.
    Nope, I’m not much of a scheduled task type guy I’m afraid. :)

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      That’s a good idea - to have a few article ideas in the hopper and add to them over time. Do you see yourself eventually moving your medium content to your product site or keeping it there? The new medium paywall is killing me ;)

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        Yeah once I've got a bit of a readership I do plan to slowly migrate them over while cross-posting them onto medium, because I'm told that it would work better from an SEO perspective.

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    I do schedule it! :) I currently write for thegoodstartup.com, and I literally have to set out time for it and make myself write. The hardest part is starting. Once you do it, it's not that bad in the moment. Kind of like exercise: painful to think about, but it feels really good once you do it! I'm currently reading "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" for more writing strategy, and it's really helpful!

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      Love the idea for the good startup! This is something I am completely in line with. Ruffbooks’ larger mission is to build creative confidence in children which hopefully fixes out broken world.

      How do you choose your post topics?

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        I look at what companies I want to interview! Whichever ones get back to me soonest and whichever ones I think would be most interesting to my readers

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