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Post a Day Participants Have Much to be Proud of

Last week we asked you guys to tell us how your Post a Day / Post a Week progress is coming along, and how it feels to have completed two months of the challenge. Your responses blew us away — you guys are really kicking butt! Congratulations and keep up the great work!

Here are some of the comments you shared:

“I have written more in two months this year than I did in six months last year.” – Jim Adcock

“Daily blogging has helped me go deeper into my writing and to better connect thought dots. I sort of view it as a public journal — and it’s helping me find my voice.” – Patbean

“In some of my first posts, I wrote about my reluctance to sit down and write. That reluctance is gone and I post every day, usually 250-350 words. The writing is much faster and even more enjoyable than before.” – Zol H

“I knew that other responsibilities (AKA “real life”) would prevent me from posting daily, so I signed on for Post a Week with plans to post more often when possible… and I’ve enjoyed it immensely.” – Margaret

“There are good, and there are bad days. All in all, a wonderful experience thus far. And I’ve met some really awesome bloggers who are onto this challenge as well.” – Genn

“I have unintentionally started doing a post a week. I had no plans for it, but it’s just kind of happened. The results are higher traffic on my site, and more interaction with the community. It’s been lots of fun!” – B.C. Young

“Two months ago, I barely could remember how to get to my dashboard…My teens cheer and tell me to give myself a gold star. :) ” – Katharine Trauger

“I’m having so much fun writing I’ve started a second blog just for photography.” – Alexy Saltekoff

“The best part of this whole thing is meeting new people. The interaction with the other bloggers is what makes it so much fun!” – Kattsby

“I am enjoying that the process gets a little easier with each passing day…I am thrilled that my readership has tripled. I am happy that I have made a commitment and I have been sticking with it, despite the hurdles.” – Masaya Mahanta

“The part that is the most fun for me is going through each day with a writer’s eye, seeking out that thing, that experience, that issue or news story that I can comment on in my own unique way.” – Andrew

“At first it was really hard, however after the first month or so it has simply become a habit – something I do everyday like brushing my teeth.” – Mlovergaard

“In January and February I’ve had more visits to my blog than I did in all of 2010! How cool is that?!” – Ken Cavanaugh

Read more at You made it through month two! How does it feel?

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76 Comments
  1. I love blogging! I started doing one everyday, but felt like it was a little too much for my readers (I followed my stats) and then went down to every other day and it seems better. I’ve found that writing regularly helps me with ideas too.

    March 8, 2011
  2. Olá a todos, estou adorando participar dos tópicos, como li um comentário concordo, que o mais interessante foi conhecer outros blogueiros, isso é muito bom, todos queremos ter amigos. E o legal de tudo é o crescimento do blog, todos gostam não?
    Obrigada por tudo, e abraços a todos!
    Mina!

    March 8, 2011
  3. I have been blogging since the first of the year…every day…I wanted to write about “MY KIDS!”as I call them…Special needs students that I worked with over 30 years…I find myself also blogging about other issues…I hope this is a sign of growth…What a release to write about what you love and see others enjoy…

    March 8, 2011
  4. Just one more example of how WordPress Rocks:
    http://nrhatch.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/7-ways-wordpress-rocks/

    Blog on!

    March 8, 2011
  5. OMG.

    I did it just now 68th time – every single day a post (sorry for mostly posting only in German). I stored 5 posts ready to post local for days without any ideas. But I never used them because I wrote every day a new text.

    And it was often a self-torturing to write something interesting (so I got my week of the music).

    But I’ll continue – maybe with some new English texts.

    Blog on!

    March 8, 2011
  6. It was an honor just to be nominated.

    March 8, 2011
  7. It’s sometimes confusing whether to write in English or Indonesian. Ya, that’s a language thing that a part of readers understand and a few of them don’t. Any suggestion…?

    March 8, 2011
    • Jill #

      i’d love to read more posts in Indonesian. After all, it’s not too different from malay. :)

      March 8, 2011
  8. Hopefully I will catch up for the days I missed in February!

    March 8, 2011
  9. I created a separate blog called DailySajib.wordpress.com and participating on Post a day program with that. This has enabled me to write more and write faster than ever before.

    March 8, 2011
  10. I’m enjoying the process… it’s hard work with lots of creative rewards. :-)
    Thank you,
    Eliz
    Mirth and Motivation

    March 8, 2011
  11. haha! Sweating!

    March 9, 2011
  12. We’ve done well, haven’t we? :-) Let’s keep up the good work. I wish I had time to read more blogs. I follow a handful of my favorite daily bloggers, but I hope to find time to read even more posts.
    http://zolh2011.wordpress.com/

    March 9, 2011
  13. Love this challenge, and nowadays I’m looking forward to writing in the morning…

    I’ve given up Facebook for Lent [even though I'm not RC], so hopefully I’ll find more time to read more posts by others.

    today’s post

    March 9, 2011
  14. I’m not hitting a post per day, but I’m coming close. I just write what comes natural. It’s become easier the more I do it.

    March 9, 2011
  15. This is an amazing accomplishment, and you’ve inspired post-a-week(ish) writers like me to ponder the kind of internal reward that comes from such a feat.

    Congrats to all who are participating! :)

    March 9, 2011
  16. Post once a day? Wow, that’s really good. I post once a week, a rule that I set for myself and that seems to work for me, in regards to time available. I might get brave and try once a day in the future. (I’ve only done that in my personal journals in the past.)
    What commitment and discipline it must take!

    March 9, 2011
  17. I am charmed that the typewriter in the picture is equipped (far right keys) for the Polish language. :) :) :)

    March 9, 2011
  18. I’m doing post a week on my photography blog. It keeps me active and challenged as well as improving my traffic.

    March 9, 2011
  19. Just posted my first content for March yesterday…I believe I will join in the fray here and post at least once a week…

    Nice job everyone!

    March 9, 2011
  20. misfit120 #

    I’m on my 404th post….um….does that count?

    March 9, 2011
  21. Blogging/writing is good therapy but also addictive. I love it.

    March 9, 2011
  22. Sometimes I have gone to pictures and a few words in order to keep up with the daily demand. I love this year, and I think one reason is that I am challenged to write daily! I really like Word Press.

    March 9, 2011
  23. I decided to do a post a day in February. I feel like my writing is improving every day. Also, it’s a much better use of my time than watching TV.

    March 9, 2011
  24. The interaction with other bloggers is the best part!!!
    I wish I had the time to write every day, but I do my best anyway. I love getting feedback and know people enjoy what I write.

    March 9, 2011
  25. Yes, Post Everyday….but what i think we should maintain the quality of the post.

    March 9, 2011
  26. I hit a brick wall and then my friends Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen stepped in and helped with a ton of new crap to write about – winner!

    Blessings,

    Ava
    xox

    March 9, 2011
  27. I write whenever I get inspiration. If I’ve got nothing I don’t force myself. I don’t really believe in discipline but congrats to everyone who does :) Blogging helps me develop and write ideas I otherwise would forget or neglect. Initially I had no idea how to check stats (technology is so complicated) and honestly thought that only my facebook friends were reading it but then I saw the numbers. Wow. Definitely don’t have that many friends. This changes everything :) But no pressure. There is something to be said about the process of writing something down and releasing it out there in the world for everyone to judge.

    March 9, 2011
  28. I’m so happy to be a part of this! Good job everyone and keep up the good work!

    March 9, 2011
  29. Michael Fishman #

    This is the first I’ve heard of Post a Day / Post a Week and it sounds like a fun idea. I hadn’t been blogging regularly until I heard about the National Blog Posting Month last November. I started that on 11/01 and kept blogging everyday for the next 100 days. The best thing for me was meeting other bloggers and seeing more hits to my blog. I have no idea where they came from or how they found me, but it was still fun!

    March 9, 2011
  30. I do my best to post once a week, and a lot of times I will look at my blog, and realize that today is the week-point, and I need to blog.

    March 9, 2011
  31. The post a day is going great. Sometimes, I post more than one. It looks like I have no life outside blog-world. Since I don’t, it’s accurate. ;-)

    March 9, 2011
  32. this is inspiring…perhaps ill give it a go in 2012!

    March 9, 2011
  33. WordPress is amazing. And these challenges are as well.

    Thanks for creating such a great blog. :D

    March 9, 2011
  34. Not only has it made me really think of something to write and blog about every day, but I’ve made so many friends already through the Blogging Buddies post you had a while back. It really helps when you have a few friends/readers to keep the motivation going… I’m so glad that I started in this challenge since I had been wanting to start blogging more often again.

    March 9, 2011
  35. I enjoy writing my blog, I always think of random things to write and it good when you put it all down and someone credits you for that. Or comments and it’s especially nice when your doing journalism in uni. Give you the confidence people are listening to your opinions.

    Great post!
    Jessie.

    March 9, 2011
  36. I find it so hard to post every day, but I post about 5 times a week. which seems to work just great.

    March 9, 2011
  37. I started my blog last summer and since then I’ve been posting twice a week, which I find challenging to keep up with. So I can’t imagine doing it daily. My hats off to all of you who’ve made that commitment. Maybe someday soon, I’ll be in your league, but for now, I need to first master, feel good about keeping up with two a week. :)

    March 9, 2011
  38. Even though I’m not directly involved in the Post A Day or Post A Week initiatives, I have started posting once a week since the revival of my blog in December. It really keeps me motivated, and since then, it’s brought me to write a series, where I post a “chapter” a day. I just finished Part 6 yesterday and I have the entire series planned out. Surprisingly, it’s also helped me with my time management skills; I post every Tuesday, and I know if Tuesday’s going to be busy, I’ll write most of it Monday and tweak it the day of. It feels so fulfilling!

    March 9, 2011
    • (I meant to say I post a chapter a week. Whoops! I edit my blog better than I edit my comments, I promise.)

      March 9, 2011
  39. compleximplicity #

    This is going outstandingly! :D I have written more in the last two months than I have in the two years of having the site set up! Linking to Twitter is also helping profoundly. Long may the challenge continue, who said words were dead? They are yet living around us and we each have a story to tell!

    March 9, 2011
  40. I started my blog in Dec 2010. Since then I have done on average a blog every 4 days. Its been an exciting 3 months.
    I feel I dont have time to do a blog a day. If I go about doing a blog a day, I would not do justice to the content of the blog – as I want to maintain a certain standard in each blog.

    March 9, 2011
  41. I’m not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but in the picture on top of your page the Y-button is swapped with the Z-button. What’s up with that?

    March 9, 2011
  42. I like I follow a handful of my favorite daily bloggers, but I hope to find time to read even more posts.

    March 9, 2011
  43. Jess Chapman #

    I have posted once a day for 737 consecutive days, no interruptions. The past two months would have been average for me if I didn’t have school projects to finish up.

    March 9, 2011
  44. I confess that I opted to post about three-four times a week, which averages out to every other day. I felt that once a week was not enough, every day too much for me. It’s working, but about what I was doing before. Life does tend to get in the way for me to post every day, and still make it thoughtful and worth reading. Unfortunately, there’s no badge for Posteveryotherday 2011.

    March 9, 2011
  45. Initially, I began with the PostADay challenge, but found it difficult to consistently turn out the quality of articles that I enjoy writing. As a result, I’ve decided to maintain my commitment to honing my craft via the PostAWeek challenge. Needless to say, I’m very pleased with the content, and its ability to provoke more thought and substance on a deeper level. I couldn’t quite get into the journaling part of blogging that may have been required for the PostADay. This has been a very exciting journey for me. I’m always jotting notes for writing, and I feel so much more attuned to the process of writing as a fluid one.

    March 9, 2011
  46. Good on you for those who have the time to post a day. My mum scolds me for posting a week as it is saying it’s a waste of time. But I seem to have got more readers than last year when I posted maybe twice a month or so.

    March 9, 2011
  47. Regularly posting for your blog really helps.

    March 9, 2011
  48. Hi ,
    I started a project kind of for myself, aimed at posting a blog everyday. I started on 8th Feb 2011. So far if i have missed a day I post two blogs the next day.

    I call this project “Get A Life: Stop Cribbing, Start Living”.
    This was a pleasent finding that folks at WordPress have started a similar drive.
    For me the whole idea was to get out of the rut “office-home-family”. Get new thoughts , connect with people. It’s been going good so far.

    I blog at “http://sbhagwat01.wordpress.com/” and call it “Life Is Like That”

    It’s good to get to know of this drive.
    Shweta

    March 9, 2011
  49. The Postaweek challenge is ideal for me, mainly because I don’t have time to do the Postaday. My monthly visits have increased month-on-month since December. As someone else has mentioned, the link to Twitter is very useful. I am finding that everything I hear, read or see gets considered as a possible post subject – does this make me obsessed? I think it does.

    March 9, 2011
  50. I posted every single day throughout 2010, so I’m not doing it this year. It was extremely hard work, but also extremely worthwhile! What I found most difficult was preparing for going on holiday when I knew I wouldn’t have web access – twice during the year I had to spend two weeks writing two, or even three, posts a day to cover the absence. The most rewarding part was when total strangers stumbled across my page from tags, and felt moved to comment on what I’d written. Awesome feeling!

    March 10, 2011
  51. I have always blogged everyday, sometimes twice a day, it always offers an interesting challenge that keeps my mind always moving!

    March 10, 2011
  52. To blog or jog? To blog or nod? Blog baby blog.

    I am addicted but this addiction will not be overcome in twelve steps.

    One day at a time. One blog at a time. Something to say. Say it.

    March 10, 2011
  53. Yes….I love that WP came up with this…great idea. I am doing the Postaweek & it had been a great help to me. Now instead of writing whenever something comes to mind that I think would be good, I try to think of things to write about!

    March 10, 2011
  54. Today will be day 63 for me. I started this project for myself. I’ve incorporated a “J” a day artwork into my posts as I felt the need to step up my art game. Not only am I enjoying the interaction with other bloggers, but I am actually creating more art faster. I am going to celebrate my 65 day mark with a giveaway and will probably do that all along this journey. It’s been such a cool experience so far. I’m even talk to people about the possibility of auctioning off the “J’s” and giving all of the money raised to St. Jude’s Childrens Hospital here in Atlanta. I’ve never done anything like this before but I’m believing that it’s possible and it would fill me with joy if I was able to help even one child through my art. Thank you so much for this idea wordpress! It has changed my life in so many positive ways!

    March 10, 2011
  55. I absolutely love PostAWeek!!! I was nearly ready to give up on blogging entirely just two weeks after the blog’s birth – but then I found this. Though *cough* “Real Life” *cough* gets in the way of me posting every day, the once a week challenge was perfect! It’s a simple goal that keeps me motivated, but doesn’t make me feel over-pressured.

    March 10, 2011
  56. I just started but I’ve done pretty well so far. I missed a day yesterday but if you read my Tuesday post you’ll understand why. So I’m doubling up today. But its a wonderful way to practice a little writing everyday!

    March 10, 2011
  57. I DO enjoy writing every day, though it takes up all of my free time which is little with crazy newly 1 year old twins + 2, but it’s an outlet and one I love, and just enjoy sharing with others, cracking jokes, making others feel good and feel like they can relate to somebody, and helping others in the process, in the way of my own experiences and in informative articles. I also do reviews.

    My husband encourages me to SKIP a day, and write every other day. He insists that search engines that crawl, I don’t know if he meant my site or what have you, will not keep up with such frequent posts and I am doing myself a diservice, yet I’m getting nearly 1/2 a million page views a month after 10+ months now, so I think it’s going well. I wish more people left comments, but at least I know they are coming, and most are staying awhile.

    I guess I like to leave comments now..when able to, because it’s a way of showing love to a fellow blogger. I have a greater respect now for what goes into a blog, and want to be a good sport, as I know how hard you work, so why not take a moment out to comment?

    I wouldn’t mind taking part in the challenge as well, eventhough I really already am. It is a good motivation for those who do let things slide, which hey…we’re all human!! I tend to not believe my husband that it’s doing me more harm then good. When the numbers go down, maybe I’ll believe him, but I hope that won’t ever happen.

    Thanks for listening and keep up the great work all you fellow bloggers out there. Much respect to you all! xoxo Shelly

    http://www.twinpossible.com/blog

    March 10, 2011
  58. I participate weekly (though I still miss it sometimes :p)

    March 11, 2011
  59. I’m still trying on posting everyday… can you guys make another campaign for posting every other day? :P

    March 12, 2011
  60. Hiiii

    Nice One

    Thanks

    March 15, 2011
  61. Hiii

    Good

    Thanks

    March 28, 2011
  62. Thank you for your blog, this is very useful to me. Because I was new in the world of bloggers so please guidance yes.

    March 29, 2011
  63. I write a blog a day everyday for ther online Cape Cod Daily News under the pen name TRB. I have been writing for newspaper columns under that name for years and it is noted in Wikepedia where I am the TRB who livs on Cape Cod. I also often write blogs for the Huffington Post and the Dallas Morning news and the online edition of USA Today. I have been a staff writer for Ther European edition of The Stars and Stripes and a reporter for the Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Boston Herald. I have taught journalism at the university level and have been a working Journalist for 40 years. Regards, TRB

    March 30, 2011
    • Of course. I would be willing to help anyone with less experience. People always helped me. TRB

      March 30, 2011
  64. This is the first time I have attempted to write a blog a day. As an old newspaper person when I say “Blog” I mean column, because my “blogs” are all of column length. It is impossible to write many blogs wihout getting political especiallly during these times. You have to say what is on your mind anyway. First you will learn the art of argument and you will also learn the basic formula for a good essay. Learn by doing. That’ s what you want. I wrote two ebooks, chapters of which you can find on Google, “A Child of Misfortunes” and “The Newspaer Man is Defunct,” just in the past year. And I am not Ernest Hemingway. Anyone with a deep desire to write can do it. I am evidence of that.

    March 30, 2011
  65. I will write a post a day on the Cape Cod Daily News – that is 7 posts a week. I welcome you to read them and share feedback on my facebook page trb jones or to my email depending on the policy here.
    Thank you. It’s good to see that so many people re still interested in the written word. Regards, TRB

    March 30, 2011
  66. Site Stat Addiction is the hardest thing about daily blogging. I check it daily to see if people are visiting. I get discouraged when the site stats are low for a few days, then miraculously I blog about something super mundane (like my recent “Why did it take me over 50 years to allow myself two towels after a shower?”and the traffic jumps and people start commenting. If I write what I’m thinking about instead of what I think my readers want to read, I’m much more likely to strike a chord. But Site Stats is such an addictive tool that I need to remind myself not to repeat a successful post but to keep a beginner’s mind each time I sit down to write.

    April 1, 2011
  67. I confess that I opted to post about three-four times a week, which averages out to every other day. I felt that once a week was not enough, every day too much for me. It’s working, but about what I was doing before. Life does tend to get in the way for me to post every day, and still make it thoughtful and worth reading. Unfortunately, there’s no badge for Posteveryotherday 2011.

    April 21, 2011

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