Rands Writing Prompts #7 (March 4th, 2024)

Ask for Feedback

1. What is the most important thing you did last week?

2. What key thing are you planning to do next week?

3. What is one thing you are choosing not to do right now? Why?

Welcome to Week #7 of Rands Writing Prompts. The prior week is right here.

I wrote a blog called The Bitsifter Digest before we called them blogs. I had fun with borderless frames for layout, but I had more fun finding my voice. While I love writing, Bitsifter died after a few years because there was no feedback. It was the early internet, and there was very little blog software to make getting feedback scalable and manageable.

A few years later, when randsinrepose.com showed up, I used MoveableType and commenting was built in. This was before social networks, so the vast majority of feedback was via comments on the blog. Do you want to know why I write about leadership? I wrote one post about 1:1s a million years ago, and the comments were plentiful and helpful. It was clear that I’d hit a nerve, so I wrote more and more about leadership.

The two big fears in writing are: how do I start? This is followed quickly by: is it any good? You might like the 250 words you wrote, and you might consider them good, but until you share them with someone where others can see them, you can’t fully answer this question.

(Did you write? Excellent. Do you want feedback? Even better. Post a link to your piece here for the world to see. Or join the #rands-writing-prompts Slack channel on RLS.)