Keith Kurson wrote a great blog post about blogging and provides a number of links to help people to get started.

The advice he gives about starting a blog is great.

1. Share your thoughts on whatever. You’re a blogger, not an opinion columnist in the washington post.
2. Change your mind! Write about why you changed your mind!
3. Write however you want. Run-on sentences. Weird grammar. Write in limericks, sonnets, or haikus – defy the grammar cops.

You should blog (Keith Kurson)

Have some fun!

I was looking at improving some PowerShell scripts I had written in the past and I came across PowerShell.org. While looking around the site I came across the guidelines for blogging at PowerShell.org. They have great answers to some of the common excuses for not blogging.

https://powershell.org/contributing/blogging-at-powershell-org/

My favourite answer is:

It Takes So Long to Make it Perfect!

Stop trying. The world isn’t a perfect place and you’re not writing for Encyclopedia Brittanica. Start with a problem you set out to solve. And then just document the ugly process you went through. What did you try? What didn’t work? Why? What did you try next? You see, teaching isn’t about preventing a learner from seeing the mistakes. It’s about showing them the mistakes, so they don’t have to experience them on their own. The process is usually far more important that the outcome. So just write about solving, and not about solutions. 

Blogging at PowerShell.org

I'm a fan of Cory Doctorow and I came across this section of his interview with the Changelog podcast.

I've started other projects and blogs in the past and have been crippled by perfectionism. Even this blog already has almost 30 draft entries that I can't bring myself to publish.

I don't know what this is going to be but I'm going to start with the intention that Cory wrote about in The Memex Method that

Writing for an audience keeps me honest.

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-memex-method-238c71f2fb46

If I write to explain what I found interesting about the topic to someone else then hopefully it'll be easier for me to remember in the future.

This is going to be an experiment. I'm going to blog about things I find important, fun, interesting, cool, whatever. There are going to be mistakes and missteps. I know I'm going to look back in embarrassment at some point in the future but I've lost a lot by not recording these things digitally in the past.

As Cory writes,

Cringing at your own memories does no one any good. On the other hand, systematically reviewing your older work to find the patterns in where you got it wrong (and right!) is hugely beneficial — it’s a useful process of introspection that makes it easier to spot and avoid your own pitfalls.

The Memex Method - Cory Doctorow

Hopefully there's going to be good times and fun too. Thats's the plan. Let's see how it goes. Like the title says: Welcome to my blooper reel.