stopping 100 days
Almost a month ago I wrote about the slow decline in frequency of my attempt at a hundred days of blog posts. I think, given that I'm down to a less-than-weekly cadence, I cannot call this a hundred days project in earnest any longer. In the spirit of "learning in the open" and being honest about failing and doing things poorly I thought I'd officially declare that I'm throwing in the towel.
I'm not terribly torn up about this - if you've been reading, you are well aware that it's been a hell of a year. I took a long break from the project while taking care of my dying mom, subsequently watched my mom die, and while I'm still getting over all of that I have a wedding to plan. Even with all of that I did make it to 77 posts which is nothing to sneeze at. Maybe I'll get to 100 this year but I'm no longer worrying about that.
One thing I've come to realize through the process of writing this blog is that doing things at my own pace and not being enormously fucking hard on myself all the time tends to be significantly better for me than the alternative. I'd like to find a way to thread the needle between consistently committing to writing without overdoing it, but I'm not sure exactly what that looks like yet.
I think some of the writing I've done as I've slowed down over the last few months has been significantly better than forcing out a post a day. So for now I'm going to try and focus on writing well slowly, and maybe even actually writing multiple drafts of something before I post it.
Watch this space, I guess?