I'm on day 4 of writing on write.as and already feeling that push to avoid breaking my streak. I think that's what I need to keep moving forward.
It was actually not easy for me to pick a spot to start blogging again. I spent a few days customizing some Ghost blog before I realized I just had to start writing and figure out the customization stuff later. This has always been my weakness.
The minimal choices in Write.as are nice for that. I write about what I'm thinking about today and click the publish button. There isn't a lot of drafting or picking what to work on. One could customize the CSS but I'm intentionally avoiding it for the moment.
Maybe the lack of distribution is helping me write? I don't feel like I need to filter for x and y since no one reads this (even though someone could).
Write.as so far:
- Good, minimal interface for writing. No distractions.
Straight markdown is OK, I prefer a really good WYSIWYG editor but those are few and far between.
- I used the beta interface for writing in Ghost for a few days too and really liked how easy it was to get WYSIWYG (and embedding!) without a massive toolbar to pick everything.
No embeds, which is shit for when I want to write about a tweet I saw or a youtube video.
Not really easy to upload photos or post from a phone. I don't do this a lot right now, but would like a place for photos that are less performative than instagram.
Tomorrow maybe we'll talk about trackbacks.