Welcome to Summer of Pub

Join a weekly blogging club with Leaflet!

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working draft — will update as we get started :)

any q's or ideas for this? let me know!

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Happy Summer Solstice…and for those of you inclined to celebrate the equal beauty of social writing, happy Summer of Pub!

This summer, join a Bluesky blogging club with Leaflet!

If you've been meaning to write more, let's do it together. We'll write, publish, follow each other's posts, and share and talk about it as we go.

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I thought it'd be nice to kick this off at the official start of summer (astronomically speaking), but it'll be a rolling start; I expect it'll take a bit to build momentum and reach folks who are interested.

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Here's how it works

We'll write together, publish, and follow each other's publications.

The primary goal is simple: publish weekly.

I'll share updates here as we go, with some writing prompts + links to what people write, to make it easy to follow along.

Link blog, review blog, photo blog — whatever you like; all kinds of formats that could be fun here!

And if you want to write more often, or even try your hand at multiple publications (easy in Leaflet), by all means.

Again, to start: follow this publication for updates.

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Why to join

Writing in public is useful…but is also very fun! We'll write more together, and we'll have a good time doing it. Also:

a great low-stakes way to practice writing, build a positive habit, get some momentum going

an excuse to start something new, which could be a fun little experiment or could turn into something bigger

a nice way to get motivation and accountability from others, and meet some like-minded writers

I'm also excited for this as a social experiment on Bluesky / atproto! The mix of longform writing and shortform converational posting feels like something with a ton of potential.

We've got a bunch of ideas for making Leaflet better that I think will be useful here too. One of the next up: a way to quote each other's posts to share favorite excerpts and talk about them on Bluesky, or in Leaflet posts of our own.

Stay tuned, and reach out if you have questions. Excited to write more this summer, and to read your publications!

—Brendan