Reading about other people’s writing process is fascinating and entertaining. There are no one-size-fits-all life hacks that all writers do other than write and publish. The only correct way to write is to just write.

I’m sharing what has been working for me. There’s no magic in the app, tools, or theme, but I have embraced a bit of new tool energy with Obsidian and the ease of Micro.blog without the pressure that every post must be a long-form thought piece.

For me, my daily workflow and my process has been:

• Write a draft using Obsidian. I prefer the Dracula theme.
• Copy the draft into Grammarly and check for red squiggly lines.
• Copy the changes back into Obsidian.
• Add the date and update the title.
• Copy back into Micro.blog.
• Check for red squiggly lines with LanguageTool.
• Update the title and fix the dates.
• If anything changes (this is common), I copy everything back into Obsidian.
• Publish on Micro.blog.
• Back in Obsidian, I move the article from my Drafts folder to my Published folder.

I copy and paste a lot. Possibly too much, but Grammarly works better in their app than on the web, and I still find red squiggly lines no matter how much I nitpick, edit, and accept changes. LanguageTool finds things that Grammarly does not and vice versa.

So that’s it. That’s what works for me.