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comment by veen
veen  ·  4029 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TNG Podcast - Why Do You Write?

One of my ambitions is pass some of the knowledge I'm attaining about urban planning to an audience. But I wouldn't know where to start: I can make a webcomic but I'm not funny enough to come up with them (the joke was a friend's), I'd love make Youtube videos but I keep getting stuck in the place Ira Glass warned about. Right now I'm taking a course on writing about science, quite fun to reflect on my writing process and motivations, but the more I learn the more I realize I'm not that good at it.

But in all media I am often hesitant to make something, because I fear that nobody will care. Which is why I mostly make stuff for people I care about, and I don't seem to find many people caring about what I might write. So no, sadly I don't really write.

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More on-topic, I really like how this vid-/podcast turned out! Great job.





rob05c  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I fear that nobody will care
    I don't seem to find many people caring about what I might write

I have a personal blog that is private and unshared. Mostly because I write about controversial things that would make people hate me :)

I feel like the important thing is to create, and better yourself. Improve your skill, whatever the medium. If other people care, great. If not, keep improving yourself.

I feel like writing is like playing with LEGO. How many people cared about the LEGO castles you made as a kid? Did that mean they weren't worth building?