Mar 8, 2011 / News

Post a Day Participants Have Much to be Proud of

Last week we asked you guys to tell us how your Post a Day / Post a Week progress is coming along, and how it feels to have completed two months of the challenge. Your responses blew us away — you guys are really kicking butt! Congratulations and keep up the great work!

Here are some of the comments you shared:

“I have written more in two months this year than I did in six months last year.” – Jim Adcock

“Daily blogging has helped me go deeper into my writing and to better connect thought dots. I sort of view it as a public journal — and it’s helping me find my voice.” – Patbean

“In some of my first posts, I wrote about my reluctance to sit down and write. That reluctance is gone and I post every day, usually 250-350 words. The writing is much faster and even more enjoyable than before.” – Zol H

“I knew that other responsibilities (AKA “real life”) would prevent me from posting daily, so I signed on for Post a Week with plans to post more often when possible… and I’ve enjoyed it immensely.” – Margaret

“There are good, and there are bad days. All in all, a wonderful experience thus far. And I’ve met some really awesome bloggers who are onto this challenge as well.” – Genn

“I have unintentionally started doing a post a week. I had no plans for it, but it’s just kind of happened. The results are higher traffic on my site, and more interaction with the community. It’s been lots of fun!” – B.C. Young

“Two months ago, I barely could remember how to get to my dashboard…My teens cheer and tell me to give myself a gold star. :)” – Katharine Trauger

“I’m having so much fun writing I’ve started a second blog just for photography.” – Alexy Saltekoff

“The best part of this whole thing is meeting new people. The interaction with the other bloggers is what makes it so much fun!” – Kattsby

“I am enjoying that the process gets a little easier with each passing day…I am thrilled that my readership has tripled. I am happy that I have made a commitment and I have been sticking with it, despite the hurdles.” – Masaya Mahanta

“The part that is the most fun for me is going through each day with a writer’s eye, seeking out that thing, that experience, that issue or news story that I can comment on in my own unique way.” – Andrew

“At first it was really hard, however after the first month or so it has simply become a habit – something I do everyday like brushing my teeth.” – Mlovergaard

“In January and February I’ve had more visits to my blog than I did in all of 2010! How cool is that?!” – Ken Cavanaugh

Read more at You made it through month two! How does it feel?

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  3. I write a blog a day everyday for ther online Cape Cod Daily News under the pen name TRB. I have been writing for newspaper columns under that name for years and it is noted in Wikepedia where I am the TRB who livs on Cape Cod. I also often write blogs for the Huffington Post and the Dallas Morning news and the online edition of USA Today. I have been a staff writer for Ther European edition of The Stars and Stripes and a reporter for the Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Boston Herald. I have taught journalism at the university level and have been a working Journalist for 40 years. Regards, TRB

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  4. This is the first time I have attempted to write a blog a day. As an old newspaper person when I say “Blog” I mean column, because my “blogs” are all of column length. It is impossible to write many blogs wihout getting political especiallly during these times. You have to say what is on your mind anyway. First you will learn the art of argument and you will also learn the basic formula for a good essay. Learn by doing. That’ s what you want. I wrote two ebooks, chapters of which you can find on Google, “A Child of Misfortunes” and “The Newspaer Man is Defunct,” just in the past year. And I am not Ernest Hemingway. Anyone with a deep desire to write can do it. I am evidence of that.

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  5. I will write a post a day on the Cape Cod Daily News – that is 7 posts a week. I welcome you to read them and share feedback on my facebook page trb jones or to my email depending on the policy here.
    Thank you. It’s good to see that so many people re still interested in the written word. Regards, TRB

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  6. Site Stat Addiction is the hardest thing about daily blogging. I check it daily to see if people are visiting. I get discouraged when the site stats are low for a few days, then miraculously I blog about something super mundane (like my recent “Why did it take me over 50 years to allow myself two towels after a shower?”and the traffic jumps and people start commenting. If I write what I’m thinking about instead of what I think my readers want to read, I’m much more likely to strike a chord. But Site Stats is such an addictive tool that I need to remind myself not to repeat a successful post but to keep a beginner’s mind each time I sit down to write.

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  7. I confess that I opted to post about three-four times a week, which averages out to every other day. I felt that once a week was not enough, every day too much for me. It’s working, but about what I was doing before. Life does tend to get in the way for me to post every day, and still make it thoughtful and worth reading. Unfortunately, there’s no badge for Posteveryotherday 2011.

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