For the past week, I’ve been writing at least 750 words every day. This has mostly come in the form of journaling. Writing so often has given me the opportunity to improve.
Not Just a Journal
A lot of the writing I’ve been doing has been mostly freeform without much planning or structure. This leads to a lot of written entries becoming journals about the day that just occurred. Writing whatever comes to mind usually revolves around the experiences I had throughout the day. Though, I have mixed in rough outlines of ideas that I’d like to work on.
One day, I started writing the broad strokes regarding a video essay inspired by Lessons Animation Taught Us by Mikey Neumann. There were a few ideas I had to respond to his “challenge” to his audience to release a personal version of his video.
When writing out the ideas I had, they quickly became a lot less profound then I was hoping. Once the words hit the paper, well screen, the direction I was going in didn’t really make sense. However, actually exploring those ideas was still a lot of fun, even if the end result wasn’t what I was hoping. This is the part of writing every day that I am enjoying so far. There is no goal, the word count is arbitrary. The point is to just write. Anything.
Get Good
It’s evident that writing nearly every week for well over a year now has improved my writing. I’m frightened to go back to those early posts. In fact, I read one a few weeks ago and was floored by how rough it was to get through. It really was a testament to how far I’ve come with practice.
As much as it pains me, that’s one of my favorite parts of this blog. I have a virtual record of my improvement over time. I am interested to see if there is a marginal difference in this post and the final one of this trial in a few weeks.
This post is going to be relatively short. Over the next week, I do want to push myself to try more complex writing projects. Until next time!
Trying Out Before Buying In 