When writing my techblog entries, one of the hard things for me is really accepting that some entries just aren't/shouldn't be that long. There's a bit of me that thinks I have a minimum word count, and that word count has been creeping up over time, so maybe I should find more words to stick in, elaborate on some point, etc etc. But sometimes what I want to say in an entry simply doesn't take that many words. And I should accept that.

(Yes this is me rubber ducking to myself.)

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@cks I've often felt the same :/ how do you deal with adding content in follow-up, like a Part 2 or Addendum if a post calls for it?

Do you think that would help, or when you publish something do you treat it as final?

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@tpaschalis I often wind up writing prequel entries to a main or final entry. Sometimes I plan these in advance, sometimes I start writing or thinking about the main entry and realize that there's something in it that's long enough I want to break it out to a separate entry and refer back to it. I'll also sometimes forward-link things, remarking in an earlier entry that something is a topic for 'another entry' and then when I write the second entry, go back & make that 'another entry' a link.

@tpaschalis I treat blog entries as final once written. The most I'll do is go back later to put in an 'Update: see this more recent entry ...' kind of remark.

(You can see all the forms of this in eg utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/bl )

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