Thread by @RobbieCrab

How writing every day for the month of January is changing me.

-A Thread-

Back in December I looked at my website and was disgusted.

I hadn't published anything since September.

I needed a wake-up call and a challenge.

It's easy to say I'll do it tomorrow...

until you put it out on Twitter that you will publish every day.

Then it's a forcing mechanism.

The first few days are exciting.

The next few days you need that forcing mechanism of pressure from the outside world.

But then something interesting happens and this is where the change really shows up.

It becomes part of the day that you look forward to.

I enjoy setting aside an hour each day to sit down and write.

It also becomes clear that ideas are everywhere.

Whereas it's tough to think of ideas at the beginning, all of a sudden you go from scarcity to abundance.

People start reacting to your work too.

Different people for different articles.

But DMs and emails start coming.

The steady production lets me reach different people.

It lets me build in public which I believe in.

I get to walk the walk instead of just saying to build in public.

Because Twitter is great, but tweets fade.

I recently googled myself.

I own my name.

It's every result on page 1.

So I learned how to write more frequently.

Connect with more people.

And own my name.

That's how writing every day in January has changed me.