To Post or Not to Post
dev.to
dev.to
Be it pure cowardice or something else even when I was much younger I understood that having something published under my name can bring me harm. In today's climate this is even more so even though my thoughts are far from the current topics.
As mentioned above it also helps to divorce it from your ego as much as it can be done, since as all the blame goes so does all the praise, and it allows you to both satisfy your need to vocalize your thoughts or ideas but also to see it just as one dimension of yourself that many readers ( including myself) fail go do when they generate opinion about the totality just by the excerpt or your thought in that time.
Also letting something sit for a while will help you immensely in seeing if this writing represents the you in the spur of the moment or is it something of more importance, maybe even bigger than you.
At the end of the day from me is more important that an idea or thought is made manifest than that there was a specific person that created that thought. Once "on the paper" for me the ownership of that is no longer mine its its own, as much as that can make sense.
Then just continue to post there when you want to say something and over time you will get wuote a collection and probably a few readers as well.
Now this is how it is done from a standpoint of a person that just wants to write and doesn't want to profit in any way from it rather than to have a place where they can manifest their thoughts, so if you are in it for something more I don't have any useful advice.
One of my first post, in retrospect, where so shallow and badly written but I am fond of them because it I'd because of that person that I am able to now much better express my thoughts, so don't fall in the trap of perfection, it is that imperfection that makes it unique. All perfection is the same, as such it has no room to grow, and that kinda misses the point for me.
Good luck, be honest yo yourself about your creation but dont be judgmental, see it as a learning process that will just happen to last your whole life :)
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Folks, can we please not flag new people as they open up under this post? This article encourages lurkers to post and partake in online conversations. It's ironic that there's a dead comment at the bottom by a confessed lurker who tried to say hello.