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Ask HN：你都在什么地方写作？
Ask HN: Where do you write?
导读
这是一篇 HN 讨论帖：有人想写短篇小说却不知该发在哪里，于是询问大家用什么平台发布、各自优劣如何。高赞回复没有停留在工具对比上，而是把问题拉回到「内容归属权」「写作习惯」和「为谁而写」三个更根本的层面，对正在纠结发布渠道的写作者很有参考价值。
可以直接用的写作要点
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优先建立带自己域名的博客，再把内容同步分发到 Medium、Twitter 等平台，既保住内容所有权，又借他人流量获得曝光。
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选平台的第一标准是「不挡路」：能让你一坐下就写、不被配色、排版、HTML 分心，比平台名气重要得多。
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需要少量格式时用 Markdown，它不会打断行文节奏；排版、部署这类技术活留到写完再做。
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认真考虑「只为自己写」：把目标说出口会提前消耗完成后的满足感，反而让真正的写作变得更难。
HN 评论精选
自建博客加多平台分发，兼顾内容所有权与曝光。
我推荐用自己域名建博客（WordPress 或 Ghost），再用插件把内容同步分发到 Medium 和 Twitter。这样内容始终属于你、控制权在你手里，同时还能享受其他平台带来的曝光。
alexmingoia查看英文原文
I recommend a blog with your own URL (WordPress or Ghost). Then you can syndicate to Medium and Twitter with plugins. That way your content stays yours and you remain in control, while also getting the exposure from other platforms.
不公开目标、只为自己写，能保护创作动机与完成度。
认真问一句：你有没有考虑过只为自己写？在这个什么都要分享的时代，我发现只为自己做、最多给一两个懂得欣赏的人看时，动机和乐趣都更纯粹。另外，不把目标告诉别人这件事被严重低估了：研究表明，说出目标会让你提前获得「做成了」的部分奖励，却没付出相应的努力，结果真正动手反而更难。我个人深有体会，外界的噪音和意见会干扰我自己的成长过程。只为自己做事时，通常顺利得多。
asdfman123查看英文原文
Serious question: have you considered writing for just yourself? I've found in this age of online sharing my motivations and enjoyments of things is more pure if I just do it for myself, and maybe share with one or two appreciative people. In addition, I find that not telling anyone your goals or ambitions is extremely underrated. There's research that shows that if you do that, you get some of the reward for having done something worthwhile without nearly as much of the work, so the actual work becomes harder to do. And personally, I find it's absolutely true. The rest of the world's noise and opinions interferes with my own developmental process. If I do things for myself and only for myself, it usually goes so much better.
平台以不打断写作流为准，技术操作留到写完之后。
重要的不是在哪写，而是怎么写。关键是选一个不挡路的平台，帮你把注意力放在写作上，把配色、排版、HTML 这类无用干扰挡在外面。Medium 在这方面不错，WordPress 的免打扰模式也是。你也可以先在 Word 里写，之后再复制粘贴，甚至用记事本。我个人用 metapad。需要一点格式又不想折腾 HTML、工具栏按钮或记快捷键时，Markdown 很好用，它不打断思路，可以一直写下去。发布我很少做（多数时候只是自娱自乐），用的是 Neocities，因为它就是老派 HTML，不碍事；GitHub Pages 也行。这两个的好处是备份几乎零负担，本地和远端各有一份，不用操心数据库备份或导出博客（Medium 和 WordPress 就要）。说缺点：静态站点生成器和 GitHub 命令得额外安装、学习、维护，还会打断写作流，所以写完再用。总结：选一个你觉得不挡你写作路的平台。
livre查看英文原文
The important thing is not where but how. What matters is a platform that doesn't get in your way. You need something that helps you focus on writing while keeping useless distractions (such as colors, formatting or html) away. Medium is good for that and so is the distraction free mode of WordPress. You can always write on Word and copy and paste the text later too. You can even use notepad or wordpad. I generally use metapad for this. In my personal case I find markdown very useful when I absolutely need some formatting but don't want to waste time with HTML, toolbar buttons or having to remember keyboard shortcuts. The great thing about it is that it doesn't break the flow, I can just keep writing. For publishing (which I do rarely as I mostly write just for my own amusement) I use Neocities because it's just old school HTML and doesn't get in my way, GitHub pages work for that too. The good thing about those two is that backups are basically hassle free, you always have a local and a remote copy and don't have to worry about having to backup a database or export a blog (as is the case for Medium or WordPress). Since you asked for cons too: static site generators and GitHub commands not only are something else you have to install, learn and keep up-to-date, they also break the flow so only use them once you've finished writing. So here's my summary: choose whatever platform you feel that doesn't get in the way of your writing.
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