The 30 Days Writing Challenge

How It Strengthened My Consistency.

Today is the 30th day of the writing challenge and I feel so emotional about it.

Doing this challenge came with mixed feelings. Feeling a little unprepared for a situation like this i.e. writing for 30 days and always showing up with a piece, no matter what happens.

You know how you start a project and in the middle of the project, it seems like all hell is going to break lose. Yeah, I felt that every at least once every week.

There was the perfectionist part that I was trying to deal with. I didn’t want to carry on or write on any topic that I didn’t research well.

That actually showed in this challenge. No one wants to put out mediocre work or at least an article that mixes up its facts.

I played safe a lot and I am glad participants in the writing challenge were given the space to do that. The structure was not so rigid that you couldn’t put out your feelings.

The pioneer actually said and I paraphrase:

“When you feel like you cannot write, write about how you cannot write.”

This was all the driving force I needed. That flexibility…

If you have followed my articles closely during this challenge, you would have noticed days when my articles were just one-minute reads.

Asides my poems, there were a few articles that just told my audience this; “Not today but today". Being able to do this was liberating.

The 30 days writing challenge is not even the beginning of my journey towards consistency.

I had done a few trainings last year that required me to be present at all cost.

But, this challenge was different. It changed a lot of perspectives I held as “being consistent”.

This writing challenge helped me be consistent because of me.

Not because someone said so, primarily, but because I did what I did on my own terms. I lived in my articles and I loved every bit of it.

You can say my consistency got strengthened because I did this for me, because I realised why I needed to be consistent by myself. I realised what it means to actually show up.

This challenge is definitely not the end of writing consistently. It’s a wake-up call in every sense of it.

So, it won’t end here.

I’m glad for all the SMART forces (if you know, you know) that pulled my strings on this challenge.

I won’t miss this challenge because I would keep remembering it. It is stuck in my head.

Thanks to you for following me and reading everyday. The support from my readers is so amazing.

Thank you for the feedback too. Means a lot.

Cheers to 30 of 30