What I learnt at the Codebar Feastival: How to write and publish your first blog post

Having recently realised that writing is something that I need to do to publish my ideas I found myself spending my Tuesday lunch time at the Codebar festival.

What to write

When you start writing you should treat it like a hobby and a pleasureable thing to do, in fact if it isn’t I don’t think I will be even able to start and definitely not be able to conintue. This rings true and I am ready to start writing and getting my voice heard. You can use a blog pattern to help focus on what you might write about, e.g I found a thing, Today I learned, Compare and contrast, How I solved a problem. Start by writing an initial draft, refine it later. Then start with am abstract and then work on the structure (beginning, middle and end).

Tools to write with

We were introduced to Markdown to write out blog in. This feels nice and simple to use, and not too disctracting either. We were advised too not to use AI to much as it can take our own voise away.

How this is going to change my life

I am really interested in writing and now I feel empowered to start. What do you blog about and are their any blog camps people meet up and write together virtually?