Notes from a Year of Writing
What I learned from publishing something every week for twelve months. The good, the bad, and the times I almost quit.
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A year ago I committed to writing one essay a week. I missed four weeks total — once for vacation, once for burnout, twice for “I have nothing to say.”
Here’s what stuck with me.
The bar is lower than you think
My first few posts took me a week to write. By month six, I could bang out a decent draft in two hours. The skill isn’t writing — it’s learning what you find interesting enough to write about.
Most posts won’t matter
Out of ~50 essays, maybe 5 are worth re-reading. That’s fine. The other 45 were the practice that made the 5 possible.
Readers are kinder than your inner critic
The posts I almost didn’t publish, for fear they were obvious or dumb, consistently got the best responses. The stuff I labored over for days? Crickets. People don’t want polish. They want a real person thinking out loud.
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