My 30 Day Blogging Challenge

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the 30/30 poetry challenge I did back in January (was it really that long ago?), it’s that writing everyday is hard. But in the end, it’s incredibly fulfilling. I hadn’t written anything for months, and forcing myself to write one poem everyday was like going on a reverse detox. A poetry binge, I might say. What I got out of it were several poems I might not have written otherwise, some better than others. A few were performance material, and that was what surprised me the most, given my insistent stage fright. The point is, I completed the challenge and wrote everyday for 30 days (taking one freebie day to account for the extra day in the month).

So now I’ve decided to take up a new challenge. I will write a blog post everyday for a month (shout out to @ABCWrites for tacking on the extra two weeks in her tweet about the challenge; I was initially only going to write for two weeks, but a month would be optimal). The topics will vary, much like the poems I wrote for the 30/30 did. Some will be reaction pieces, others general observations, or whatever happens to pop into my head when I sit down to write. This will be hard for two reasons:

1. I’m going back to school in two weeks. Once I get settled back into campus life, I have no idea what my writing schedule will be.
2. I’m away from my computer for hours at a time most days, and by the time I get back to it, I want nothing more than to watch TV or read Dorkly or Cracked for an hour and then go to sleep.

As I close this post, I’d like to leave you all with this great poster I found months ago and haven’t looked at again until today. I hope it inspires you all to pick up a pen and paper, start working on that novel or short story you’ve been putting off, or just write down your thoughts for the day.