This idea was born in one of our monthly meetups. Folks had written drafts on some of the topics but were scared to put them out there. On probing further, it was the case that they didn’t want to publicly associate the post with their names in case it doesn’t get good reception. This traps them in a vicious cycle: They don’t publish because they feel the writing is not good enough, and the writing can’t improve without feedback!
To solve this problem, we are announcing “The Next Big Writer” experiment:
- Write your post in markdown and submit a PR under drafts folder.
- It will be published to Hashnode under the "The Next Big Writer" publication.
- It’ll be shared on Twitter and our Telegram group.
The aim is to get you to reach so that you get feedback (likes/comments), which is the only way to improve.
You just have to create an account on hashnode.com and add your username in this README.md itself by raising a PR so that we can add you as a contributor.
Once your username is added you can select "The Next Big Writer" under publications on hashnode to submit your draft.
Please join the telegram group and connect with your mentors. We will be able to answer your questions here as well.
Group link 👉 https://t.me/joinchat/LVu-1VBsGlShlcH1_F2mhQ
The current workflow for submitting a post is as follows:
- Clone this repository -
git clone https://github.com/iamshadmirza/TheNextBigWriter.git - Create a branch -
git checkout -b post/your-post-name - Move into the subdirectory of your chosen topic, e.g react
- Create a directory of your chosen topic. example: top-10-node-tricks
- Create a new file with the naming convention of title-of-the-post.md inside the created directory.
- Write your post
- Commit the post to the repo
- Create a pull request on master
- In the pull request title, put the title of your post - Add My Post Title
- Submit the pull request. Feedback and reviews will be done of pull-request.
- Submit to our hashnode publication after review.
We will be adding topics as issues and you can comment "I want to take this" on them. Once you're done with your first draft, send a pull request and reference your "issue". We will merge the PR after review and mark it as completed 🎉. You can also choose your topic as per your comfort level. Just create an issue with your topic name and drop the "I'm taking this" comment. This will make sure only one person is writing on one topic.