Today is the last day of my writing PACT where I set out to write and publish a blog post every day for 30 days.
I’ve written about various things that were on top of mind: Side projects, sport, personal finance, general life advice that I found useful, replies to blog posts and lately about our new family member.
Funny enough, the most popular post by far (at least according to my Plausible analytics) was a relatively simple (no pun intended) one: The simplest read-later app. It’s essentially just resharing an even shorter article from Marcel, with a few additional comments by me. His repost on Mastodon was probably the reason why it gained some traction.
If I’m honest, this is one of these posts that I probably wouldn’t have published, if it weren’t for this challenge. But having to write about something every day forces you to just write about whatever you can think of.
In retrospect, I’m glad that I pushed through and managed to write for a whole month. Writing per se isn’t even the hardest part most of the time. It’s arguing with your inner critic to actually publish the piece.
But you never know if a piece resonates with someone else and maybe makes their day a bit better too. I got some great replies on some posts that definitely made my day. One thoughtful message always makes a published post more than worth it, no matter how many people read it.
Still, I’m also glad that I can now go back to a more natural posting schedule. Write just whenever I want to, not because I have to.
That’s the cool thing about PACTs: They’re not habits, they have an end. But they still help you to try out things that you wouldn’t have done otherwise. I can only recommend coming up with one yourself.
I’m probably going to do the same again.