Ask HN: How long does it take for you to write a blog post?

2 points by Nales 3 years ago | 3 comments

I am not used to write blog posts. I have just posted here a quite small technical blog post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34807152). This blog post took me a bit more than six hours to write for the English part, and two more for the translation. I know I would have written it faster if English were my native tongue, if I took less time to test the code snippets, or if I were less verbose.

I am curious to know how long does it take for you to write a blog post, and what advice do you have to speed up the writing process.

ClapperHeid 3 years ago |

It depends. Sometimes I'll knock one out in an afternoon [Fnar! Fnar!]. Other ones have taken me a few days to write. It really depends on the subject matter. A technical post requires more research, screen-grqbbing and checking than a "Get off my lawn!" rant.

PaulHoule 3 years ago |

That’s not crazy. The one obvious thing to do is drop the translation and only write in one language. You have to test the code snippets if it is a quality programming blog and not a splog. Making it shorter will probably take longer.

ClapperHeid 3 years ago | |

  >Making it shorter will probably take longer.

As the man said [0]

[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/