# The Dark Side of Blogging

DevFeed: [The Dark Side of Blogging](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-dark-side-of-blogging-38436.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eevis.codes/blog/2021-09-09/the-dark-side-of-blogging/>)

Author: Eevis Panula

Published: 2023-01-03T08:57:27.078000Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Eevis Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/eevis-blog.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tutorial.md>)

Tags: [advice](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/advice.md>), [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [blogging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blogging.md>)

## AI overview

An opinion article about the downsides of blogging for developers, drawing on the author's experiences and offering advice. It highlights the time required to create, test, edit, and publish quality content, especially when personal circumstances affect writing speed.

## Source excerpt

Lately, I've seen multiple excellent posts about why developers should blog. They list very good reasons, and I wholeheartedly agree with them. Blogging is good for many things, it's fun, and you learn a lot during the process. However, there are downsides to blogging as well, especially if you write about controversial topics. This blog post will discuss some of these downsides, tell my own experiences, and share tips on conquering those not-so-great things. I'm writing the tips for myself as advice I would have needed to hear, so they might not all apply to you, but I hope you'll get at least something out of this post! Some Background I started actively blogging about a year ago. My motivator was, at first, to write blog posts 16 weeks in a row to get the 16-weeks badge from Dev.to. I earned the badge, and if you're interested, I wrote a blog post about what I learned from that journey. Blogging is something I like a lot. It has given me a way to construct my thoughts through writing and learn in the process. I already have a good archive of articles I've written. It hasn't been once or twice that I've had the opportunity to refer to one of my blog posts in a conversation. However, as much I like this, there have been downsides as well. And during the past year, I've been struggling with stuff - as I would imagine most of us have because of Covid and all the isolation it causes. I'm also recovering from a brain injury, which makes me prone to fatigue. So these things have significantly slowed my speed of writing, especially in 2021. So, let's have a look at the downsides and some advice! Writing Quality Content Takes Time If you want to write some quality content, it takes time. Suppose you're creating a tutorial of some sort, building the end result, testing it, and writing the blog post. It can take a long time from the start to publishing it. In Dev, I've come across multiple posts that are basically just (short) lists of links. There is time and place for tho