day 30

30 posts in 30 days

🍾🥂 you will NOT by hearing from me tomorrow

it was weird having someone call me prolific. it was weird having people message me and ask me for tips about writing more. consistently producing writing on a deadline is not in character for me. god, much less putting it out in front of you people. although i guess maybe it’s in character for me now that i’ve done it?

it was very hard to do this for the first few days. the writing was hard & i was looking at the metrics obsessively. i think the third day in particular i really felt the grind. & then it was easy! i know i was grumbling at this post yesterday but it’s still a good post. the commitment to write for 30 days, forced me to be honest about what interested me enough that i could stand writing about it. some days i wrote a few posts & scheduled them & then i had multiple days to work on a post! & the post i worked the most on was my favorite one……….i feel like everybody else around here is like “oh the dashed-off posts that i was just trying to get out there, turned out to be the posts that did the best” but that’s just not how it was for me

idk, it made me miss editing, perfectionism…..

you know what’s really funny? i have basically exactly the same number of followers that i started this with (sorry if it’s gauche to talk numbers) but y'all are now a somewhat different set of people. i lost a lot of the followers that i picked up from that ladylike post, who i guess were like “hmmm this girl turns out to talk too much & im not really interested in the stuff she wants to talk about” (a reaction i get a lot in real life so i get it). it felt scary & weird to lose followers. but like i said i picked up about the same amount & y’all know what i post like. so i think we’re all set to have a much better time together than the group i started with

i’m not sure what i’m going to do going forward, i don’t think i wanna post every day forever, right now i feel very puffed up like i’ll never need structure again bc it turns out i can write as much as i want, but realistically i’m probably going to need structure again….