Thirty days ago, I challenged myself to write thirty blog posts in thirty days. This is the thirtieth post.
Am I proud of myself? Yes, actually. But I also learned a lot with this challenge. Sometimes, you say you’re going to do something and it just sort of fades from your mind. But sometimes, you make a commitment that goes somehow deeper and you feel a little unnerved if you’re not on track.
I did skip some days for various reasons. But that nagging feeling would be there and I had to return. Toward the end, I started upping my output and in the last week wrote a ton of posts. One evening, I wrote five!
I have always known I can turn something out fairly quickly if I want to. As opposed to those times when I struggle and slave over every word. Yes, I have those days, too, but I find that, when I need to get something done, I can’t indulge in struggle. I just have to do it. And, when I just have to do it, it becomes easy. The struggle fades. I’m sure I could make it come back if I wanted to, if I felt there wasn’t enough drama in my life, of course. But now that I have this experience of simply getting past the struggle and getting the writing done, will I ever indulge that again? I have a feeling that, knowing I can just do it, it will be too uncomfortable to indulge in.
Some of you participated in this challenge. Some did the whole 30 days, some simply got more writing done than they’d done in previous months. More writing is very good. Finish the rest of the thirty anyway. You may learn a lot about yourself.
This weekend, I plan on putting out another of my short stores on Kindle (a very dark on, bordering on horror!), and I’m working on my book Poppycock (I’m committed to that coming out by the end of October and that’s very close.)
What are you up to?
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