The more I think about it, the more certain I am that I want my main work to be writing books. Not necessarily always looking to publish things in dead-tree format, but definitely looking to write with that kind of sweep, that kind of depth. At the very least, if I'm writing non-fiction but I'm not writing something that's a unified narrative, that is, I'm writing discrete essays, then I'd like to be writing things of sufficient length that I could grab a dozen or fifteen or twenty of them and pull them together and turn them into a book. It's not a bad way to read, the long-form essay. I take pleasure in reading essays, so I take pleasure in attempting to write them.
So if that (writing books) is the case, then what does that mean for my daily publishing? What do I post, day after day? Because I certainly am not publishing a thousand-word essay every day. That's much too exhausting, and furthermore probably wouldn't get read. Do I excerpt from a piece as I write it, showing bits and pieces of the piece while it's under construction? That's certainly a possibility, though I don't know how valuable that would be for other people. On the other hand, much of what I write I determine by asking, "Would I read something like that?" And I would 100% for certain read the as-it-happens here's-my-process stuff by any number of my favorite writers were they to publish such things day by day. I'd be fascinated by that.