Blog Every Day in September: Day 1 - Write like crap, but write every day
Welcome welcome to my blog! Today is the first day in my attempt to blog every day in September!
Why?! I attended Beth Dunn's “How To Be a Writing God" talk at Inbound 13 where one of the major takeaways was that in order to be a better writer, I needed to switch from being a perfectionist to a completionist. I have always had the issue that whatever I put out has to be the most awesome piece. Beth’s message was that you need to lower your standards and focus on just getting things published. My favourite quote by her was, "Write like crap, but write every day" At the same time, my twitter friend Michaela was also participating in her own blog every day in August challenge. Watching her complete this challenge was awesome and I got excited to see what new material she would churn out each day. Michaela’s challenge combined with Beth Dunn’s talk was the right push I needed for me to participate in this challenge to improve my own writing skills! What can you expect? At this point, I have a few ideas down on paper so you can expect topics involving pop culture, sports and my personal ramblings. My goal is to just get things written down and hitting that publish button. I will forewarn you that some posts will be total crap, but that doesn’t matter to me right now. So sit back and enjoy my attempt to write every day in September! Feel free to suggest any topics to me so that it makes the challenge easier for me! Until next time friends, Will