30 Day Writing Challenge- Let's Go!

    Today is September 1, 2022. The first day of the month and the ninth month of the year. Let me just share how much I love the beginning of a new month, new week, new day, and new year. For now, I'm loving that this is the beginning of a new month. I've been doing 30 day challenges each month for many years now. During that time, I've noticed that certain challenges are more successful than others. One challenge that has been very successful are writing challenges. So today, marks the first day of September and the first day of my journey to writing productivity. But why am I doing this writing challenge yet again anyways? I will share three reasons why. 

    First, it will make me more productive. How? Writing daily like this will make me more productive in that I will be able to master jotting down my ideas quickly. One of my rules in this challenge is to set a timer and write. Writing in this time constraint will force me to quickly articulate my ideas. Writing down ideas quickly leads me to the second reason why I want to do this challenge. 

    Secondly, doing this challenge will give me an actual forum to share my ideas. I come across so many concepts and principles from books, conversations, or my devotionals, that it just necessitates a opportunity to have an outlet share these things. One of my professors once shared that "writing is thinking". Popular nonfiction author and educator Willam Zinsser reminds us in his book "Writing to Learn" that writing helps us formulate the things that we know. So ultimately writing out my ideas will help me articulate them and further cement the ideas in my mind. 

Lastly, it will help me build the practice of writing daily. From what I've learned from successful writers, artists, musicians and other creatives, getting in a habit of working on their craft consistently and regularly is what keeps them doing what they're doing. Painters paint, vocalists sing, cartoonists draw, and writers write. If I am to take this passion gift/obsession seriously, I must have a grind of doing what I need to do to hone this craft. I'm excited about the journey. We'll see where this goes and I trust that all the work done in writing and articulating ideas will bear fruit. (articles written, posts posted, impact made, etc.) But this all begs the question, what is it that's worth writing about?