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Medium Progress, 22 February 2021
An update on how I’m doing after commencing writing on Medium a week ago
I’m documenting my experience on Medium so I have a record of where I started and where I end up. It’s also to keep myself accountable, to keep writing regularly and striving to improve. Hopefully, I can also help others with lessons learned, tips and maybe one day some inspiration.
This is the first article I’ve written for Medium, but it won’t be the first I publish. I heard that Medium doesn’t distribute articles about Medium, so I want to start with a few articles on other topics before I upload this one.
And that’s my first blocker. Other topics. Over the weekend I stopped and started four articles. A few paragraphs in and I decided they were all rubbish.
“Just write!” I told myself. “You’ve got to start somewhere.”
Yeah, I know. But my powers of self-censorship are strong. I don’t want to offend anyone and I don’t want to write anything subpar. And so I write nothing.
Well, you do have to start somewhere. And starting with nothing is a good starting point. I can only get more productive hereon in. So today I set myself the goal to write thirty minutes every day. Hopefully more, but if I start with thirty uninterrupted minutes of daily writing, surely I’ll produce something decent…
