Halfway

This "posting every day" business is both harder and easier than I expected it would be. I had expected that I'd be struggling to make myself write, but that has been quite easy, I have sometimes held myself back from posting several times per day. The early days of NaBloPoMo were pretty liberating, the discipline of writing something - anything, damn it - every day presented a flood of possible topics, most of which I didn't use and have since forgotten. The pressure to post defuses the pressure to write world-changing, meaningful tracts - which I can't do anyway.

The hard part is simply the enormous amount of time that this takes. I spend about an hour on each post, believe it or not, and many are edited several times during the following days.

It's like daily meditation, which is something else that I don't do nearly as often as I wish I did. Once I got over the idea that it had to be the very first thing I did each day, it became much easier to find the time to sit. Perhaps there is a similar lesson to be applied to blogging? "Less perfectionism = more fun" or some such thing.

But the habit of daily posting is a good one, and as Joe in Vegas commented I will keep up the pace; perhaps not every single day but far more often than I have posted previously.

Fifteen down, fifteen - or infinity - to go.