Friday, September 06, 2019

On Writing Content

The strange thing about the creative process is that if you start off with something that is too large, the mind goes blank. I've been thinking about the kinds of apps that I'd be interested in building and simply the sheer number of topics that come to mind drives me in to paralysis.

Topics such as:

  • How am I going to deploy the application
  • What should the design look like
  • What design technology should I use?
    • Vue, React, Angular
    • Bootstrap
    • Django, Aiohttp
    • etc
  • Are the design models right
  • Is the application useful
And more are the kinds of questions that come to mind. Mastering any or all of these things are time consuming. For doing anything app wise, I think at first, don't worry too much about perfection on the first try. Start with something simple and go from there. Once you understand the frameworks, things will come together a little faster.

Especially for things like a webpage, writing content takes some time and I really think the key to building something is really about generating a corpus of content over time then to have the opportunity to deploy it out there afterwards.