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I’ve been publishing daily for over 150 days straight now. Frustratingly, there was one day where I typed up everything, but didn’t press the ‘publish’ button, the following day I posted twice to catch back up.

It’s with a fair amount of relief and also slight pride that I write that this will be the end of my daily posts. I will continue to post, just not with the same frequency. I felt that my daily posting was becoming less of a happy experience, and more like a chore I would be getting in at the end of the day. I want my writing to bring me joy, and while it still does, I know if I continue to feel like this is a chore, it will lose it’s effect.

I wanted to challenge myself to write daily for as long as possible. While, I know I could continue to post daily for some time, I am choosing to focus on quality rather than production. I sometimes would feel that my deadline to post daily would be reflected in quality of the dialogue, plot, descriptions, or even the spelling and grammar. I have accomplished what I had set out to do, which was write. And write without abandon.

During my short time publishing daily, I have learned that I can and will continue to write everyday, but that is different than publishing. Not everything written, spoken, or heard needs to be repeated or published. This 150 posts contained a lot of firsts for me, not only was it my first time publishing anything I wrote publicly, but it was my first time writing fiction. It was my first time writing history, product and book reviews, a few of my investments. I had never read Sci-fi, let alone written it, now I do both frequently. Although as a sidebar, I do think it should be really Science fantasy as that would be a more accurate description of the genre in my opinion.

I’ve written about my travels, my businesses, my first film review, cybersecurity state actors, all designed to challenge my writing abilities. Challenge them they did, I sometimes found it difficult and rewarding to have to shift gears when writing a Sci-fi anthology part on Monday, an investment article relating to covered puts on Tuesday, and a historical fiction part for an assassination attempt on Wednesday.

Overall, I have found this time to be cathartic, challenging, fun, and introspective. Outside of my writing skills, this experience had opened me up to poetry, other authors, series, genres, podcasts, etc. By researching topics and subjects, you learn a lot of residual information. This residual thread hangs off the fabric that is the main topic, begging to be pulled and revealed further. This is how I was never really running out of things to write about.

Another reason I’m slowing down is simply freedom. I just wrapped up a semester for my MBA, closed down one of my businesses while running others. It’s nice to have some of that time back, and the daily posts take a significant amount of time. I’ve reached my goals, I’m much more confident in my writing abilities, and have new passions to follow. Thanks to those who read my stuff everyday! I appreciate you all!