Frankly, although I love the idea of Inkhaven, seeing people post daily on Less Wrong felt very annoying.
Writing a lot is good, publishing it is good, but Less Wrong in my opinion is not the right place to publish what are essentially writing exercises rather than complete posts. There should be some quality bar that we are trying to reach, and the goals of the exercise (keep writing regularly, on a "best effort" basis) are contrary to this.
Trying to think for five minutes what would be a best solution for someone who wants feedback from the LessWrong community -- make a new blog somewhere else, publish there, and every day post a "shortform" on Less Wrong containing a link and a summary. Dozen shortforms a day won't make the website seem so flooded, and the best ones will rise to the top. (Maybe later repost the most successful ones? After editing them.)
From a reader perspective, I love the flood of content that comes with Inkhaven. Yes, most of the posts don't particularly interest me - but that's true of normal LW times! I'm already accustomed to scrolling past content I don't want to read, and I don't find it burdensome. Even during Inkhaven there are not so many posts that I can't look through all of them and decide to read them. LW just doesn't have enough content.
If I like a particular author I will also just read everything they write, even if it's daily. I read every Zvipost for example (His posting is irregular but sometimes he posts daily, and they're much longer than Inkhaven posts.)
On fiction, despite loving serials i generally prefer to read stories once they're complete, so more frequent chapters doesn't impact me. If they're short stories then more posts just means more of them and more chances for something interesting to snag me. For example, a while ago Richard Ngo would post a short story daily and I always enjoyed them.
It depends on the goals. And, in particular, on whether you’d prefer to engage with immediate feedback from the readers, or whether it would interfere with the flow of your thoughts.
For example, when I was doing a HalfHaven, I’ve created a secondary separate blog (on Dreamwidth, a Livejournal clone), and after it was over, I’ve created an overview post on what is currently my main Dreamwidth blog. But I wanted to think out loud in a publicly accessible space for a few weeks, rather than to engage with readers in real time…
I'm guessing if someone is following you in particular, they'd be at least neutral to seeing significantly more of your posts, and may be very happy. I have some writers I follow who write too fast for me to read and it just means I'll never get around to reading it all.
This isn't a post, just a question.
With Inkhaven 3 and NaNoWriMo approaching, it's got me thinking about writing challenges. Inkhaven's challenge, if I understand it correctly, is to write a new blog post every single day for thirty days.
I'm wondering, if I were to attempt this: Would my (small number of) subscribers be annoyed by this volume of posts? Would it be wiser to start up an experimental secondary blog to post these?
I'm curious to know perspectives from those who've actually
enduredenjoyed this trial.