5 Reasons Why You Should Choose Write.as For Your Blog
If you're like me, you're not a professional blogger, writer, author, public figure or industry professional that has a need for a strong online presence and a platform with all the bells and whistles, then Write.as might be the right solution for you.
Here's how I see things.
Sign up in easy and painless. Write.as has a free option (I'm writing this post on) that gets you going, for all practical purposes, instantly. It took me less than two minutes to sign up and start writing my first post.
Did I say if was free? As a non-professional writer I don't have disposable income to spend on a platform who's main goal is to separate me from my money. But I still want an easy-to-use system that looks good and functions as advertised.
Your goal is to write, not gain followers. Sure we all want someone to validate our thoughts and feelings on subjects we care about, that's human nature. If that's your goal, just use social media. Writing a blog is about stating your case without the concerns of “what will people say?”. Who cares. Write what you want and opinions of others be damned.
You have your own website but want a blog to connected to it. This was really my primary motivation for choosing write.as. A few months back I built my own website stevenpreston.im on Neocities.org for a couple reasons. I wanted a place for my art to live online. I wanted that space to belong to me without worrying about the platform shutting down or going out of business, or more importantly, turning Toxic-Nazi like X and Facebook did. And for the record, I canceled my accounts on both of those platforms a few months ago to. And, I wanted a blog on my website. During my website build, I learned how difficult (and time-consuming) it is to write and maintain a blog on a hand-build static website. Write.as fills the void quite nicely.
Simplicity is key to focus on your words. The Write.as writing interface is great for it's minimalist approach to a workspace keeping you focused on “putting words down on paper”. That's why your here, to write, right?
This post is for me as much as it if for you. For some reason my subconscious brain is still trying to convince me that I've made the right decision to use write.as for my primary blog platform and writing this post helps put that feeling to rest.
The long and short is, it's free. Try it out like I'm doing and if you don't like it, just delete it and keep searching for something that works for you.
I hope this helps.
Cheers, Steven
PS— Disclaimer: I was not compensated for this post. I do not work for and am not affiliated with Write.as in any way. I'm just a user, I like the platform and wanted to make a post about it. (I really hate that I felt the need to put this stupid disclaimer here, but that's the world we live in now. Maybe I'll write a post about it.)
Looking for an About Me page? Visit my website: stevenpreston.im