Mar 31, 2011 / News

You’ve now completed 25% of the challenge! Feedback for us?

Congratulations on making it through month three!!

At the end of February, you guys told us about how Post a Day/Week has strengthened your writing abilities, boosted your blog readership, and given you the chance to meet lots of other great bloggers. This month we want to know how we can continue to help you meet your blogging goals.

So tell us, what’s been the hardest part of the challenge? Is it sitting down and getting started with posts? Choosing what to write about? Finding the courage to stop editing and hit publish? Let us know what you struggle with most, and we’ll do our best to help!

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  3. It’s going pretty good. My blog isn’t topic specific at all, so I have all the freedom I could ever wish for. I write in the mornings while having my first coffee — now it has become like a habit that I’m looking forward too. If I have any problems with this at all, it would be that I have a tendency to get too personal. After all, it’s not a personal diary … it’s a general chit chat. I use the suggested topics as a ‘crutch’, when I have those days when the mind is blank.

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  4. AS I LOOK UP TO THE SKY THEY TALK ME THE STAR’S/MOON THE WIND/AFLOUD OOF THIER MOVEMENT,TWINKLE S\/TWINKLE STAR’S BIG OR SMALL,BY MOVEMENT OF METEOR’S HOW STYLE OF DROP,THE MOON MARRIED THE STAR CAN ANYBODY KNOW’S THAT,,,I’M ONLY POOR LADY LIVE IN HALL WAY,SLEEP IN THE COCONUT PLANT AREA PARK,I ASK MY SELF WHAT WOULD I DO ,,AAAAHH,IT’S BETTER I LET MY BRAIN WALK SO THAT APART OF VIEN BE MOVE AND FUNCTION TO AWAY ON CUMMATOSE ,HERE I AM DANCING MY HAND TO TIP/TOP/TAP/THAT MAKE MY SELF REFLEX ALONE FOR CIRCULATION OF BLOOD TO MY WHOLE LIFE TOO,,,WHAT A GOOD EXERCISE WE CAN MAKE TO OUR SELF//FEED OUR MIND OF BEAUTIFUL THINK THAT FLOW’S BY FYING DREAMS

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  5. TO THE UNIVERSE CURING OF HUMAN ILLNESS,FEED’S OUR MIND ,MOVE TO CREATE VIEW OF SUROUNDING LIFE ,FLASHING OF WIND ON OUR BEAUTIFUL FACE /IN HEAL DEEP AND FEEL THE FRESH AIR TO START OUR MINDS WEAK-UP TO A DESTINY OF RUNNING THOUGHTS ,GET EXAMPLE OF IT HOW WE CAN GAIN A NICE ,EROBICS BODY QUEST FOR MOVE OUR VIEN IN CERREBRUM GOING TO BRAIN TO BECOME HEALTHY INVEST INWRITING WORK,,,,,,,

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  6. I find myself usually posting more than once a week and I signed up for the post a week. I love writing and don’t think my posts are too awfully bad, but I have not gained readership and wonder if it’s the tags I use or just what. Some feedback would be much appreciated if anyone wants to take a gander.

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    1. Sigh, looked at your blog and enjoyed it. Think the problem is there is just a lot of good blogs out there and lots of good ones go un-read. Sort of like the unknown singers discovered on American Idol or So You Think You Can Dance. I’ve looked at the blogs listed here getting good readership and yours is as good as any.

      I don’t have the readership I want, haven’t gotten on Fresh Press and follow most of the suggestions. Know I am not subject specific. Everyone needs Emotional Fitness and that allows me a wide range of subjects. I would probably do better to stick to parenting issues as I have published two books in that field. Sigh, just can’t rein in my curious mind and need to share broadly.

      For me another problem remains having learning disablity that age has added to and no matter how often or how carefully I use spell check and editing, mistakes always creep through and that is a real no-no. You don’t have that problem.

      Finally, I am in the wrong demongraphic–meaning an old one. Lots of my young friends on Facebooks read and love the blog posts that go there, but capturing new readers is hard.

      My solutioin, I write for me and my grandchildren. My children are sick of my “wisdom” Hoping my grandchildren will read at some point and gain.

      By the way do any of you back up your blog and how?

      Staying strong.

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  7. Wahoo! 25% Congrats to all that have made it this far! 🙂

    I actually find it easier and easier to write every day now… I look forward to it and am constantly thinking about what I can blog about today! 🙂 This daily post challenge may be the best thing for my motivation to blog more!

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  8. So much time has passed already, it seems quite surreal. After this is all over, I’ll probably still post each day simply out of habit! PostADay2011 has been a tremendous challenge in some respects, and a cup of tea in others. Occasionally, it’s simply a matter of updating my readers on what I plan on doing next – which I must say, is unsatisfactory in comparison to full-blown reviews and in-depth posts. I rely on movies, video games, TV shows, major book releases, etc. to create posts for my blog. I’d love to make longer posts, as they tend to attract more views, though time seems to be slipping away much to quickly.

    The challenge has been a great asset in developing my writing skills, and getting back up on my feet as a writer. I hope to participate again next year is there’s a PostADay2012, maybe even a PostTwiceADay2012? Now that would require some innovative, creative thinking!

    Thanks for starting this challenge in the first place, it’s been great!

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  9. I love the post a day challenge, I love it! I try to post every day, it’s the time zones difference that is a challenge.

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  10. I agree with Judith’s comment earlier about not knowing when to stop. I find that after I’ve published more ideas comes, or different ways of saying things and I just can’t help myself. Sometimes I edit several days after publishing. I have found the daily discipline immensely helpful, once the idea comes that is – they don’t always come easily and are very seldom the ones you’ve suggested. I love the challenge!!!

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  11. It’s funny cause blogging is one of my favorite things to do but if i put it off too late it i’m racing to finish it within 1/2 hour at 11:30 pm.
    I took on the Post a Day and did fall off the wagon while working on a project for 3 days. I wasn’t sure it would be ok to come back and am glad to know that we can fall and get back up again in good company.
    I’ve been blogging sporadically since 1996 and this is really making me focus and put together ideas and images that people are telling me they enjoy getting in their mailboxes.
    For awhile I was a apprehensive about showing up in subscribers’ inboxes on the daily. A blogger told me to get over it and stop apologizing.
    Since then I’ve enjoyed it again. but tonight was a midnight post and I’m worn out! Congrats to all for your diligence with all the obstacles from kids to jobs to deployment. I’ll try to do it in the morning tomorrow. joyfully!

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  12. I joined in about half way through February, so I was a late starter! However, I’m loving the challenge. There are a few days when it’s been a bit of a panic to get the blog done, but on the whole it’s an enjoyable experience. It has helped my other writing no end, and I’ve found out lots of interesting facts while I’ve been trawling around for things to write about. I’ve made some new friends on the way. I’m just so pleased I signed up for the challenge!

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  13. Sometimes, I am not in the mood to write eventhough a lot ideas are await to write down.
    Sometimes, when I am writing down the ideas, I am suddenly distracted and then thinking that the post that I currently write is not important, or not interesting.
    Those are the biggest problem for me to write in blog

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  14. the best part of the weekly challenge: I am actually writing 2-3 posts a week, i have readers that follow me and are eager to read me, I am defining my writing skills and what i like writing about, I am so busy now (being a full time mom, i miss work, but this is work for me!)
    the difficult part: trying to reach out to more readers, writing something substantial EVERY time, would like more readers to comment and give feedback!
    All is all this is a wonderful and creative project for me; It made me start my novel, which was in my mind for the last 30 years!)

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  15. For me the hardest thing is coming up with something to write about. While I know yo provide us with topics for writing it feels like cheating to me to use them. This only concerns me, if I read a post by someone else on one of these topics I think it’s great! I guess I’m just a crazy person…

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  16. I couldn’t find the right answer for myself but for me…it’s not that I don’t know what to write, it’s more like it’s so important I convey my message from the right place, whether it’s a blog of an interview, an event, person or EQ related topics….I read a lot and it takes a while for everything to mesh so I know I am writing after I have understood first. That’s tough.

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  17. I think the hardest is part is finding time for blogging and my writing, I try to post one article a day but sometimes I get carried away with my writing and run out of time. The big plus for me is that the post a day challenge has shown that I can run and maintain a blog. I’ve been tempted to head over to wp.org and get my own blog on a hosted site to use as a showcase for my novel, but I’m concerned with what other people say about the limited interactivity that wp.com bloggers have access to.

    I guess the only way to find out is to try it!

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  18. Apart from the usual “nailing my ass to the chair” issue that I have with all my writing, the biggest problem with blogging was quite unexpected. As I’ve always written for myself and known that nobody was going to read it, the fact, that other people are reading what I write, suddenly brought about stage fright. Sometimes I stop myself writing about things because I think it sounds pathetic or not exciting enough and I’m going to bore the two people that read my blog to tears. 🙂

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  19. Olá a todos, creio que atingi a minha meta. Mesmo só postando no meio da semana, ou como se diz no Brasil, quando bate a loucura, ou quando vem uma idéia de repente.
    Acontece muito comigo. Mas graças a todos da Word. Press e amigos daqui, estou feliz com os resultados.
    No meu entender nos ajudou a ficarmos bem mais soltos para blogar.
    Dá para notar, todos sentimos isso.
    O meu obrigada e abraços a todos merecidamente!!
    Mina!!

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  20. I jumped right into blogging, not knowing what on earth I was doing. (I come from where a post is for holding up a fence…) It has been a huge learning curve, although the “help” button does help some if only I know what to look for. What I really need is for someone up there to come sit by my desk and talk me through several issues. My big need is for the “Learn WordPress” page to be about ten pages. Also, it would be totally helpful if each video were also provided in screenshot form, for those of us who live where posts hold up fences, and a 5-minute video takes about 30 minutes to view in snippets.
    Questions: Should blogging take about 3 hours per day? I began with about fifty blogs already written, as a backlog to boost me on those days–you know–those days. I never waste time thinking what to write. Still, each time I post, it takes this huge chunk of the day to complete everything, such as follow-up on comments (which I am totally glad to get!), tag surfing, anlyzing stats, reporting spam referrers (could use a button there), editing typos, that do not show up until after scheduling, correcting format tangles, etc. Is this to be expected? Yesterday afternoon, my hits nearly quadrupled, only about ten spam referrals and five search engine sources for that–can’t figure, but sure no complaints! Any ideas why?
    How do we get the posatday icon? Somehow missed that, and the fact of a postaday page. Someone please correspond on these issues!

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  25. I took up the challenge to give myself a target for writing this year. With life always throwing spanners into the machinery, there are always reasons not to write, and reasons for not producing something. Since I am writing poetry, I find even once a week is very challenging amongst work and family, and all the little things sent to stop us writing. It has been difficult but I have enjoyed it so far.
    Jim

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  26. Time (or, rather, lack thereof) is the biggest “issue” for me. But unless you guys can think of a way to extend the day into more than 24 hours [and I know you’re good, but I suspect you all probably don’t have those mad skills just yet…] I think I’ll just have to deal with it, work with it, and carry on. So far I’ve posted every day since I started this blog (Sept 2010) – and I was a nearly daily blogger on other sites before that, so I *can* do it (as I *have* been doing it); just sometimes get tired is all. But oh well; I can rest later. 🙂

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