Benefits of Writing/Blogging 20 Minutes a Day since 2011: 3249 Posts

I have learned the following:

If you write daily, you will increase writing fluidity, develop your “voice,” discover who you are and how you think, feel good about yourself by doing something every day related to writing, believe you are closer to being a “real” writer, stop debilitating perfectionism, have a daily chronicle of your life, and create a body of work.

If you blog daily, you will increase readership, build a writing platform, open yourself up to people writing similar blogs on the Internet, create a community of writers, increase your chances of attracting an agent, and/or increase your confidence to move ahead with your writing dream

Challenges to Writing 20 Minutes a Day, even after all of these years:

I am boring, and so is my life.
Why would anybody care about what I’m writing?
I am wasting my time. I will never make money doing this.
I have nothing to write about. I am blank.
I am not a good writer, why am I bothering?
I have other more pressing business that needs my attention; I should be doing it instead.
I am kidding myself that this endeavor makes any sense.
What makes me think I have something special to say, especially since most of the time my writing is so mundane?

Life Lesson: You and the world’s greatest writers share the same doubts.

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” William Shakespeare

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.” Jane Austen              

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” Sylvia Plath                                              

“I don’t believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.” Tennessee Williams

The only goal every day: sit down and write for at least 20 minutes.