Thought cannot be completely indifferent. Thought cannot simply be separated from suffering, hope, or similar motivators.

- Theodor Adorno

Blogging for me has always come with ups and downs. The biggest obstacle has been social networks, each of which, in its own way, absorbed whatever thought I had at the moment and didn’t let it turn into a blog post that’s both searchable and retrievable from the past. So, before anything else, reading why I quit social networks might be worthwhile.

How My Blog Posts Take Shape

Blogging for me is more like assembling a puzzle than inventing something. Whenever I come across a point, I quickly jot it down and transfer it to a draft post. Later, in my free time, I revisit those drafts and write more about each point. Once a substantial portion of what I want to convey to the reader is in there, I move on to publishing.

All my posts are collected word by word and sentence by sentence over days [sometimes long] to form a post. This sometimes causes a disjointed feel that can be dizzying for the reader, but I still prefer publishing them to not publishing. In the following days, I continuously refine sentences, add new points, or remove unnecessary parts. In other words, it may be necessary to reread any of my posts because, very likely, new content has been added.

While reading books or articles, listening to something, or browsing the web, if a specific thought comes to mind that I used to tweet, I now write it in the draft for that topic. This has led to having 162 drafts at the moment, each averaging about 500 words.

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