31 days ago, I set out to write a blog post for every day in November.
The low points:
- Posting various relatively poorly formatted, rushed or somewhat rambling posts that are probably below par.
- Rushing to midnight deadlines
- Desparately trying to push posts online at 11:50pm via GSM on a train!
The high points:
- Completing various blog posts I’ve wanted to write for a long time. In particularly, I’m pleased to have posted:
- War. Peace. Who remembers them?
- How I sneaked into the tech industry without a degree and got my first job.
- Death: a free trial, but no one cancels.
- Why am I vegetarian? A two decade retrospective.
It’s interesting to note that mostly, those are quite personal articles – perhaps I’ve just not had the nerve to post them previously?
- It was fun
It was actually a lot more fun than I feared it might be. Compared to February where I largely tried to post things, not necessarily write things, I feel that even the blog post with the least amount of writing is worthy. I was very tempted to do some posts with just photos, but I never could justify it given my stack of half-finished posts.
I actually surprised myself with how much fun I was having – I found it a lot more rewarding than I’d expected!
One of original missions was to reduce the number of part written blog posts in my drafts box. I binned a number, I completed a number, and as I wrote, I came up with more ideas, though I currently have a relatively modest 44 draft articles still to be completed and posted!
I’m hoping that I’ll continue to blog my way through much of December (as long as I have stuff I want to write!), but now my primary focus will be on another challenging project:
