{"id":3186,"date":"2010-09-13T12:31:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T19:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redfindevelop.wpengine.com\/blog\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2020-10-05T13:12:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T20:12:34","slug":"thirty_minutes_a_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/thirty_minutes_a_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Minutes a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s TechFlash podcast, Todd Bishop asks me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techflash.com\/seattle\/2010\/09\/podcast_microsoft_nokia_google_guest_redfins_glenn_kelman.html\">how I find the time to blog<\/a>. I said that writing is how I develop a point of view, and that having a point of view is part of my job.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a bit like trapping a soccer ball. You&#8217;re taught to trap the ball dead to your feet, but it&#8217;s easier and more aggressive to knock the ball in the direction you&#8217;re already moving.<br \/>\nIn the same way, developing a point of view gets you moving in one direction, which usually sets everyone else on the field &#8212; customers, competitors, the media &#8212; chasing after you. I&#8217;ve always thought this is the secret to Michael Arrington&#8217;s success, that while everyone else is trying to absorb the news, he can re-direct its energy on goal.<br \/>\nSo it&#8217;s worth my time to blog, but the trick is finding the time. I blog very early and very late at night, because I love it, whenever I can. I&#8217;m not Raymond Carver but I often think of him writing short stories inside a locked car, while his kids banged on the windows. I try not to write at work.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/1967-Mustang-Fastback-Gone-in-60-Seconds-Eleanor-Nitrous-Go-Baby-Go-Button-1280x960-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3191\" src=\"https:\/\/redfin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/1967-Mustang-Fastback-Gone-in-60-Seconds-Eleanor-Nitrous-Go-Baby-Go-Button-1280x960-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd I write fast out of necessity, trying never to spend more than 30 minutes on a post. I do this in part out of necessity, but also because I&#8217;ve learned that the more time I have to spend on a post, the more likely it&#8217;ll just be a mess. It has taken me years to write simple, fast blog posts. I try to think like a skier and take the fall line through an idea.<br \/>\nHere are a few tricks for doing just that:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Have a point of view before you start<\/strong>. I got the idea of blogging at Jiffy-Lube speeds from one of my favorite bloggers, Fred Wilson. When he told me his daily posts take 30 minutes, I said &#8220;NO WAY.&#8221; He looked back at me coolly: &#8220;Were you asking me how long a post takes to write, or how long I have to think about it first?&#8221; I give myself an hour, and usually go on a run first.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Come right out and say it<\/strong>: My twin brother reads my writing and often responds with the same complaint: &#8220;I&#8217;M TWO PARAGRAPHS INTO THIS THING, AND I STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHERE YOU&#8217;RE GOING.&#8221; A novelist once gave me similar advice about the opening page: &#8220;Let the s*** be flying.&#8221; A useful test is if you can&#8217;t state the gist on Twitter &#8212; not just what it&#8217;s about, but where you come out &#8212; you haven&#8217;t thought it through.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keep it short<\/strong>: 800 words is the length of a New York Times op-ed. These days, 300 words is what people really want to read.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use the basic tools of writing<\/strong>: use character, dialog, analogy, allusion &#8212; whether the allusion is to a poet or your favorite TV show. I just read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/go-that-way-really-fast.html\">a post about how start-ups are like the first ski run of the season<\/a>, quoting a John Cusack movie on strategy (&#8220;Go that way,\u00a0<em>really<\/em> fast. And if something gets in your way, turn.&#8221;) It was perfect.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Get it out awkwardly &amp; then make it exactingly right<\/strong>: sometimes I catch myself expressing an opinion without the proper caveats just because of the way it sounds. That&#8217;s rhetoric, not writing. Most of us actually prefer reading <a href=\"http:\/\/sheynkman.tumblr.com\/post\/1076499767\/easy-reading-is-hard-writing\">blunt, precise sentences<\/a> stumbling through stubborn facts. Ezra Pound once said of Ford Madox Ford that he never hesitated to dent a pretty word or phrase to get at what he was really trying to say. This is what takes the most time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Be yourself<\/strong>: most writers try to take their personality out so it sounds proper. I like the goofy ones better.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Just hit publish<\/strong>: the great political blogger Andrew Sullivan says blogs are like sharks. If they don&#8217;t move, they die.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus on what&#8217;s new<\/strong>. For example, every company, including yours, was affected by Google Instant. And last Wednesday, everybody wanted to read about it. Every blog starts out like Jack Handey&#8217;s Deep Thoughts, with random treatises on leadership. Posts on topical events usually get more traffic, discussion and links.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve learned so far, but it&#8217;s still a struggle for me. 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