Many of my blog post are long & niche, and that is ok
I was hopping around various Bear blog posts by others today. Found some good tidbits and great advice. Things like:
"Just start writing, don't think about writing or what you will write about or why, .. often the ideas and words will come, if you just start."
"Do not go too 'niche' on your entire Blog, write about whatever & about everything that you like."
By that was meant: do not go in for: "I will have travel or or cooking or tech only blog", like so many people used to do to drive exposure, traffic and clicks.
I love niche blog posts, especially when they resonate with people. My recent bum-gun post:
https://anon0.bearblog.dev/bum-gun-rimless-toilet-how-did-i-ever-live-without-one/
prompted a really nice second e-mail as well as a post by another blogger from half-way across the world, shout-out to my new online friend "nutts"! :)
https://blog.nutts.org/2026/05/31/team-bum-gun-forever/
It just goes to show that people can feel passionately about many things. The above interaction is far more meaningful to me, that connection, than 200 upvotes on any blog post. Of course I do love those too!
Yet, I blog about anything and everything, very general, banal, meaningful, universal, of very little interest to very few, does not matter, if it is on my mind, I like getting it out there.
- Blog for yourself.
I love every single e-mail I have gotten. Yet if nobody ever read a single post I made, i'd still Blog. I prefer if a few people do read and especially get something out it, but at the end of the day, the practice of writing (I used to Journal more, those writings could not be seen by anyone) is inherently valuable to me.
As for length, some of my post are exhaustive, perhaps even exhausting for some. That is fine. I like researching things, making sure I really got it all out there. I am well aware that if I made almost Haiku-like, polished, short posts of 30 to ca. 150 words, had very snappy titles etc, i'd likely get more views and upvotes.
But that was never the goal. And it is not me. Having fun is the goal. Doing what I like in my own space that is free, on a blog service I believe in, is the thing.