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Show IH: writing every day for 6 months to develop my marketing skills

I wrote 200 words every day for 6 months straight. The results are pretty amazing:

https://200wordsaday.com/words/6-months-of-200wad-172175cd84d8e77489

TLDR: 300 pages of content, 200+ posts, including one ebook written

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    Nice work! I've started a habit of writing every day no matter what. I'm about a month in and have missed a couple of days here and there, but I've still progressed a lot more than I normally would. I only publish once a week so that not every day that I write has to be good writing or even something I would want to publish publicly.

    How did you find the pressure of publishing daily? Was it a positive incentive (like a good feeling once you hit publish), or was it a bit stressful?

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      At first, it's a bit stressful, but with time you learn to remove your inner filters.

      Now it's just part of my day, I'm excited to share my writings with others. I don't overthink things: English is not my mother tongue (I'm French), and I still make many grammar mistakes.

      I'm not afraid of publishing anymore, no matter how bad it gets :P

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    I keep wanting to do something like this, jealous! :)

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      What prevents you from doing it? It just takes half an hour a day :)

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    I'm very close to doing something like this myself. What a great way to structure it. Curious how long it took to write 200 words when you started and what it took by the end of the 6 months?

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      The hardest part is not writing the words, it's finding a topic to write about :)

      It takes between half an hour and two hours to publish 200 words on a daily basis I would say. Sometimes the words flow, sometimes you need to perform some research...

      It gets easier though.

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    Nice one Basile :) I'm currently undertaking a 100 day project and finding that can be gruelling enough, amazing to think you nearly completed double that undertaking (albeit in a different theme)! You gave me a little bit of extra motivation 👍

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      Thank you! What's this 100-day project about @blunicorn? :)

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        I'm trying to start a non-profit to help friends, family (and anyone else, frankly) to pool resources and ideas to help fight climate change. It's interesting cause it was just a small thing I was planning to do anyway, but I knew I'd take like 1+ years if I worked on it 'every now and then', so I decided to follow #The100DayProject on instagram. Normally people use that hashtag for making art, like a little bit of art each day, but I decided to co-opt it and try to start the charity in the same spirit. It's not a big project, but still big enough that there's always a little something to do and having the 100 day structure is definitely helping to keep it in my mind rather than getting sidetracked for weeks or months with other things in life!

        You can see what I've been up to on https://instagram.com/target.2030/ if you like...most days are not very exciting though, you've been warned 😂

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          This is dope! :D Did you join https://techimpactmakers.com? We are looking for projects like yours to contribute to!

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            hey, yeah I noticed it the other day, seems like an awesome new initiative 😃 I'm going to get in the slack channel at some point and introduce myself, but I'm worried about getting sucked down the rabbit hole and losing site of the MVP haha. Like I have fairly humble/simple aims for the MVP, but naturally there are a whole host of different avenues I'd like to extend into and that community would be a great place to find collaborators - I've sent a few other people to the techimpactmakers website already actually, and have heard good things about the people they're finding in there and ideas that are being explored 😍

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              I see! Well, if you need beta users, you know where to head to ;)

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                The MVP actually isn't SaaS, or any other kind of service actually, it's just making it possible for people I know to donate money to a newly formed charitable foundation that will be spent on land purchase and restoration/protection each year 🙂...but beta donors are always welcome 😉

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