I've decided to stop writing in the blog every day. The rhythm of daily posts affects quality either way — and I want to change that for the sake of my books.
I’ve decided to stop writing in the blog every day.
Last November, I started this interesting experiment of daily text posts.
Back then I didn’t think I’d be able to write without a break for this long.
For me personally, video blogging is a lot simpler. You can go into the studio once a month, spend a couple hours filming, and have enough material for the next 4 weeks of social media posts.
The idea of writing a text post every single day, back then a year ago, felt very bold, and I figured I’d last a couple of weeks (maybe a couple of months at most).
But no. If you make a decision, you can actually stick to it. If you want to.
Over this year, I’ve confirmed that writing and posting every single day is more than doable. It’s not hard.
I’ve also confirmed, from my own experience, that topics and ideas never run out. The more thoughts you put down on paper (in the blog), the more of them come to you.
This literary experiment did the most important thing: it built a habit of writing systematically, every day.
And since October 28th, I’ve started spending 40-60 minutes every day working on my books. I’m hoping the first one will be out in the world in 2025. For now, I’m planning to self-publish. From what I’ve heard, publishers offer authors about 20% in royalties and don’t help much with actually marketing the book.
Right now I understand that this challenge is what launched me into this literary current, and I’m actively swimming in it.
Now I spend a good amount of time on text, writing exactly the kind of books I would have loved to read myself 10 years ago.
This coming Monday will mark 365 days in a row of posting and writing in the blog. Tomorrow I’ll publish one more daily post, and Monday will be the finale of this experiment.
I want to change the rhythm and, going forward, only write in the blog when I want to, and only once the text is well-prepared and has “matured.”
Whether I like it or not, the rhythm of daily posts affects quality either way.
I’ve seen this very clearly through working on books. When I can come back to the same text several times and edit it, the result comes out much better than when I have to publish a new post every single day.
So if you’re used to checking my feed every day for a new post, don’t be disappointed. There’ll be fewer posts, but they’ll be better ones (I hope).
I’m going to keep working with text, and I’ll be doing it much more than I used to. It’s just that the results of that work will show up as books, not as my (sometimes raw) daily thoughts in the blog.
What do you think of this news? Have you been reading my daily posts?