7 Deep Thoughts on Blogging Everyday

Today I’m right at the halfway point of my month-long “blog everyday” experiment, and I can’t help but declare how difficult this is.

Here’s are some deep but off-the-cuff thoughts on what it feels like to blog every day:

The Not So Good

1. My post quality has declined.
By far this is the toughest reality. I used to give myself a week or even more to craft a post, and I dared not publish it until I was sure it was decent.

But now that I MUST publish everyday, I find myself scrambling ideas to throw together, which isn’t good. I don’t like to rush writing, and I feel like I’m back in the newsroom with a story deadline looming every day. It’s been edgy.

But then again, I’m likely to be improving my content by writing every day.

2. I’m can’t stop writing about the same subject matter. This is actually kind of comical. I keep writing about blogging and writing and writing and blogging when there’s so much more that Wordful represents. How many more posts about blogging and writing can you take?

3. Subscriber Counts are Flat.
You’d think that I’d get more subscribers with more content but they’ve stayed about the same. My next experiment will definitely involve marketing this blog!

The Really Good

4. I’m doing it!
Despite the challenges, I am publishing 5 days a week as I intended. It feels great to actually be accomplishing this. It certainly can’t be harmful, right?

5. I’ve loosened up and I’m more personal.
This is huge, actually. I feel so much better just being myself here. Beginning bloggers feel the need to sound a certain way to get attention, which is totally unecessary.

In fact, just last week I wrote a post about Chris Brogan’s writing advantage which is just him being himself on his blog. [He then came by and complimented it.]

6. Writing is becoming much easier. Ha ha—the perfect comeback to me whining that “my writing is rushed.”

I’m really starting to appreciate writing faster, because it means that eventually I’ll be proficient enough to whip out a quality post in one sitting. Then maybe another, shorter sitting for editing (which is where the magic happens).

7. I’m forced to be more creative.
No longer do I feel so limited by the typical 300-700 word blog post with the Flickr creative commons image on top, the super catchy headline and the authoritative voice. That’s a very classic blog style and yes, it’s very powerful—but Wordful doesn’t need to be that way to be awesome.

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So there you have it. The good outweighs the bad. Stay tuned for more posts here on Wordful. Thanks for reading, and please subscribe at top if you haven’t yet.

Photo by nattu.