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🤔 … These prompts walk a fine line between community building and digital navel-gazing.
WordPress clearly wants us clicking, commenting, and connecting with other writers, but their strategy feels borrowed from the social media playbook where personal revelation equals engagement. The problem is that we already spend most of our time in our own heads – we don’t necessarily need more invitations to talk about ourselves. What we actually crave is genuine connection over craft, shared struggles with the blank page, or debates about whether that semicolon really belongs there… The platform seems to mistake vulnerability for community, when… What builds real writerly bonds is often the opposite: focusing outward, on the work itself, on the weird little obsessions that drive us to put words together in the first place. It gets exhausting to repeatedly package our hopes and dreams for public consumption, especially when we’re in the thick of actually working toward them. Real plans need protection, not exposition – they’re fragile things that can wither under too much scrutiny or lose their power when over-explained. The most exciting projects often live best in the quiet spaces between announcement and achievement, where they can grow and change without the weight of public expectation.
🤔 … Sometimes the most honest response to “What are you excited about?” is simply “I’m working on something, and I’ll show you when it’s ready.” The doing matters more than the telling, and the best surprises are the ones nobody saw coming.