Writing a blog a day for six months… what is it like?
It’s been six months to the day when I first embarked on a quest, one that started as a challenge and turned into something greater. I committed myself to writing one blog a day, for a whole year. Now that I’m at the half way mark, it’s a good opportunity to reflect.
Over the six months:
- 8,450 people have read my blogs on Medium alone
- I’ve written blogs on topics including Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business and Health
- 181 people have followed me on Medium
- Around 182,000 words have been written
- About 250 hours have been spent generating ideas and writing the blogs
- That means 5% of the last six months have been spent on the blogs, on average 70 minutes a day
Over that time I’ve developed my existing writing skills, become much more creative in finding ideas to write about and become very disciplined. So much so that writing blogs have now become a natural part of my day-to-day routine.
There have been a few times I was close to not doing one, because I was either ill or didn’t feel like I had the time. But I didn’t want to fail so I found a way. I have no doubt that the next six months of my…
