I don’t want to write a blog post right now. My bed is beckoning, I didn’t get enough sleep last night, I have an interview tomorrow, and my room is such a mess it looks like it was ransacked by bandits. I’ve got 99 excuses but I’m still writing this post. Because this is what I do. Every single day. For almost seven months.

Wow. It’s still hard to believe. I never had time for daily blogging! I absolutely don’t have time for it right now! Yet here we are.

Thoughts on Daily Blogging Now That I’ve Done It For Over 200 Posts!

Done is better than good.

I’ve tried to convince myself of this for years with little success. SO many project I would never finish, or hell, never even start because I didn’t feel they were good enough. An arbitrary measurement if there ever was one- good enough. When daily blogging, I don’t have the luxury of just using my good ideas. I have to use all the ideas! It’s definitely true that some of the ones that seem meh in my mind blossom when I start writing.

I’m as crappy as the MTA when it comes to planning ahead

Here I am at 11:04PM, racing against the clock to finish my daily blog post. If you get subscriber emails, you know that happens frequently and that sometimes I even cheat because my WordPress account is set on Central Time. I hear about bloggers who schedule their posts a month in advance and it blows. my. mind. I want to say that will never. be me. But I thought I’d say that about daily blogging, so who knows!

One strict deadline that still allows for wiggle room, please.

My one goal is to blog daily. I’ve allowed myself to not worry about other restrictions beyond that. For a while I was struggling to post at optimal times – 10AM! It was too much. Posting at 12AM is far from ideal, but giving myself the frame of 24 hours rather than 10AM DEADLINE OR FAIL keeps me sane.

Has daily blogging made me a better writer?

It’s made me a more efficient writer- I can bang out a post in 20 minutes sometimes, though others still take hours. Daily blogging has absolutely made me a better content creator and a photographer. But a better writer? I’m not sure… Though I am absolutely a more disciplined writer now, and I think that alone does equal better.

Habits are pretty great.

I’m at the point where blogging is a habit and that’s pretty great.

A supportive partner makes everything easier.

I probably never would have taken on this challenge if my boyfriend hadn’t supported me and believed I could do it. There have been nights when we’ll come home from a date and blogging is the last thing I want to do. He’ll just say, “You got this. I’ll watch an episode of Cobra Kai while you bang one out.” A blog post. Bang out a blog post!

At least I never run out of things to write about

Thank you NYC for providing endless material.

 

Can I keep it up?

I’m not sure. I’m enjoying the experience for now, I’m learning from it and it’s still pushing me out of my comfort zone. Is it helping my blog significantly? I’m less convinced. Sometimes I question whether my readers can keep up with daily posts! Dialing it back to every other day might make more sense at some point very soon.

Have you ever tried daily blogging? Do you think I’m nuts for attempting it for so long? Do you enjoy my dailies or are you a quality over quantity purist?