As the end of the month draws nearer, I am reflecting on how this little daily blogging experiment has gone. Overall, I am really happy with it. I am a little shocked how easy I found it to be, considering the large gaps I had in the preceding months regarding posting. This June, writing a little something every day came so easily. Perhaps it was because the bar I set for myself was low (only requiring a couple hundred words), or perhaps it was the fact that I was only holding myself to this for a month; I do not know.
What I do know, is that this felt good. It felt like stretching a muscle that has not gotten enough use. The muscle was not yet in danger of atrophy, but its use feels healthy. It felt like a stretching of my mind, a reinvigoration of something that lay too dormant for too long.
I don’t know yet what writing goals I will set for myself in July. I think I will do something of a similar ilk, but I do not want to put the demands for myself too high, either. I have many more days in July where I know posting will be a challenge and I do not want to set myself up against a goal I do not feel confident in meeting. But I think setting an intention at the top of the month did help me. I love me an achievable challenge; I live for times when I have something I am striving for. So, I will think on it more, and I will decide how I can push myself with writing in June. Perhaps I aim for longer pieces less often, or something more in the fiction ilk. I want to continue to push myself and I want to help myself in directions where I want to go on the whole. This exercise has been fantastic, now it is time to hone it.