Today is the last day of my blogging challenge. For the last ninety days, I’ve published a post every single day. Since today is the end of the challenge, it makes a ton of sense to do a review post.
Something like nine things I learned blogging for 90 days.
But, like so many of posts I’ve written, I don’t have time to dedicate to a big topic based looking backward.
It’s actually kind of fitting because a TON of the blog posts I’ve written were last minute, simple, one thought posts. 11:00 pm, dying to go to sleep but “shit, I’ve got to publish something” blog posts.
So, what was the one big thing that comes from writing a blog every day for 90 days?
For me it’s evidence. Ninety days of blogging gives me a lot of evidence about the way I work and live.
As far as writing goes, I can see that my attention is not very focused. My ability to plan and act on prior plans is not as good as I want it to be. I started a number of blog series that I haven’t finished. I had a number of ideas that I could only follow through with in a small way. After seeing this in my writing, I am more motivated to change it.
Ninety days of blogging also gives me evidence about myself. It has shown me that I feel a lot better when I’m creating daily. Getting creative release. In another post, I related the feeling of creative constipation that comes when I’m not exploring ideas and writing them out. I am so much happier when I create every day.
The last thing is a question that comes up after finishing ninety days of blogging. I know that I work better with all or nothing rules. Writing every day feels a lot easier for me to follow than writing three articles a week. But, I feel a lot better when I produce a longer, more deeply thought out articles. So it is a question of how I want to continue as I move forward.
The answer I want to explore is setting a daily time for writing. Instead of hitting publish every day I’m going to write for one hour every day. The goal being to create three posts a week, but have longer, deeper posts because I am taking more time to put them together.
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