Hey friends,
I hope you are flourishing.
I started
my blog earlier this year with the intention to
publish an article everydayâactually with the intention to
write everyday, but without the public accountability of having to post, I knew I wouldnât write.
I had a good start.
But for the past month or so, I have gone off-track. I donât think I fully understood the challenges of taking on something like this. I think I understand it now: it is really difficult.
It is especially difficult for someone like me, who is new to writing, doesnât read enough and is trying to find his own writing style.
Yesterday was the 100th day of 2021 and I counted how many days out of those I hit âpublish'â65 posts till date (53 articles and 12 issues of Sunday Slant). So I have missed posting on 35 days. Thatâs an entire month of not posting.
I know it is pointless to get caught up with numbers. It is not numbers Iâm chasing (frankly, those are 65 posts I hadnât written before that I am happy to have written now!), but I took up a challenge and I cannot continue to describe myself as 'everyday writerâ on my website and elsewhere, when I am not writing every day.
Honestly, I am not a âwriterâ; posting a few blog posts does not a writer make. That line in my bio is merely aspirational. (Also, I mean to use âeverydayâ as an adjective, meaning ordinary. hah, you didnât see that coming, did you? thanks.)
I am rambling.
Since I want to continue using âeveryday writerâ on my Twitter bio, I am recalibrating my writing challenge that I took on earlier this year. Iâll also make it bold, to terrorise myself a bit.
Starting tomorrow, i.e. 12 April 2021, I will publish an article every single day on my site for a full year (six articles every week and one newsletter every Sunday).
(phew. thatâs a lot of attention drawn to myself.)
Thatâs it. I am not bringing this up again. We arenât talking about this again in the future either. Over. Done.
Back to Seth Godin.
There were a series of inspirations through last year, that led me to come online this year. Seth Godin was the sole reason I decided to write publicly every day. The man has been writing on his blog every single day for the past fifteen years at least. Iâll let that sink in.
I got very inspired by him and thoughtâyup, thatâs what I want to do, write every day on a website thingy.â (I even made the favicon of my site like his, because I was having analysis paralysis.) He writes about marketing, design and entrepreneurship. Until I read his stuff, I thought all of marketing was bullship. His posts are easy, light and short:
Seth Godinâs blog
Until next week,
Sumeru