Blogging when no one’s watching: Why it’s still worth it

This writer here at https://solitarycafe.lykhari.com has been writing about his journey of writing a novel/book. He/she started the blog from scratch with no audience. If you go through the posts, you will see they are like a journal. Journaling is writing. Writing helps in making sense of your thoughts and organizing them better. Writing can give you solutions and sort through complex problems.

Writing slows you down. It makes your thinking deliberate and intentional. Thinking without writing makes your mind go all over the place. Blogging is a tool to write. The entire point is to write well so you can think well.

The second effect of writing and publishing online is a sense of progress. That sense of progress triggers a dopamine effect and helps keep you on the path longer.

The third advantage is that you build a public body of work. In an age of AI, spam, and noise, having public proof of work is more important than any certification, course, or degree. Many people are hired just by displaying a public proof of work. Your blog is your portfolio.

The fourth advantage of blogging is that you eventually, invariably help someone. I’ve been an avid reader of https://solitarycafe.lykhari.com. I learned a lot from that. Maybe the writer doesn’t even know about it.

I was once at a restaurant and met some distant acquaintances. One of them said he has been following my writings very closely and likes my blog a lot. Then a few other people later also brought up that point. I discovered that, even though I have no clue, many (by my standards) are regular readers and benefit from my writing.

Writing is worth it. Blogging is just writing in public. Writing in public is worth it.