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title: 'Reflections on a Month of #PostADay'
url: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/reflections-on-a-month-of-postaday'
markdown: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/reflections-on-a-month-of-postaday.md'
date: '2023-02-28'
description: 'A month ago, I set out to publish a blog post every single day of the month of February. In the beginning, I had no idea what would happen, how it would go, anything really… I did assume that if I could develop the muscle memory of doing this everyday, that I would find it easier to sit down and en…'
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    - Journal
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    - c25k
    - PostADay
    - thoughts
    - writing
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# Reflections on a Month of #PostADay

## [Reflections on a Month of #PostADay](https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/reflections-on-a-month-of-postaday)

    28th Feb 2023   [c25k](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:c25k#body-wrapper) [PostADay](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:PostADay#body-wrapper) [thoughts](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:thoughts#body-wrapper) [writing](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:writing#body-wrapper)  

A month ago, I set out to publish a blog post every single day of the month of February. In the beginning, I had no idea what would happen, how it would go, anything really…

I did assume that if I could develop the muscle memory of doing this everyday, that I would find it easier to sit down and engage in a creative process with less distraction, and hopefully, more success.

```
my writing muscle
needs exercising daily —
sitting down, scribbling

senryu by <a href="https://medium.com/@cactushaiku/senryu-writing-muscle-c89e3b989c6c" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">M. Nakazato LaFreniere</a>
```

It was definitely hard at first. Everything felt like [Julia Cameron’s morning pages](https://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/) which never really worked for me.

Why did this begin to feel different? An artificial deadline? A curtain going up everyday at 10:01 AM? I think so.

Not the regularity of it (because morning pages has that), it had to be the deadline, and to reinforce that deadline, I made sure to not keep it a secret. I told as many people as possible. I wanted to be held accountable in case I stumbled.

And, stumbling brings me to the next bit. It began to feel like [Couch to 5K](https://www.c25k.com/). Everyday, pushing forward, knowing there was a goal not all that far off. I definitely feel creatively looser now; more able and willing to just start writing without making excuses.

I also experienced what I can only define as Social Media Redirection, where things that may have become tweets or toots became posts here instead. And, because I took to posting those things here, I took more care in crafting them and fleshing out the ideas behind them.

This final post of February is definitely crossing a finish line of sorts. I do not yet know how often I will post here moving forward. I do want to keep the daily writing going but I now need some of this posting time to go to other projects. If I start to get stuck again, I will likely go back to [\#PostADay](https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/tag/) for a week or even possibly a month. But for now, I’m going to take a quiet cool down lap around my mind, rehydrate, and consider what road starts for me tomorrow.

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