By the time you’re reading this post, I’ll have published a blog post every single day for 170 days in a row. That’s 170 days where I’ve sat down, without a draft or a backlog, and written something new.
I totally stand by this practice, but I’ll be honest: I’m losing a bit of enthusiasm. This exact approach isn’t working for me anymore, and that’s totally (really, completely) fine. Just as with morning pages, you use the practice itself to figure out what the practice can be. You write every day to figure out what you want to write about every day.
Part of it, I think, is that there’s so much I want to write that doesn’t fit into the current shape of this daily blog. I have a day job and (gestures) life, so I have to think about the time I can dedicate to writing and what I want to do with it. One thing I’m sure of: I want to keep publishing here every day. Something I’m less sure of: what I want to publish.
This post is coming right off the dome (as most of them do) so I haven’t figured it out yet. This will be the most meta of posts. A post declaring that I want to figure it out, absent of any of the figuring, and certainly without a definitive out. I’m just making a start.
Over the next few days (weeks? eternity?) I’m going to explore on this blog what it means to publish a daily blog. What it means to write. What it means to show up. I’ve mentioned that I’m the primary audience for this blog, and that will never be more true than right now.
Writing here for the past six months has changed my life in several ways that I’ll get around to describing properly someday. Now that I’m here, though, I want to turn a few degrees and head off again. I want to see how else it can change me. I never want to get bored of my daily practice; I want to feel like it enriches me and challenges me.
If you’re following along (and I don’t know if you are, I don’t look), I hope that you’ll bear with me whilst I explore what this space is supposed to hold for the next six months. If you’re just starting to read these posts now, I hope the back catalogue has something for you.