Every day, WordPress emails me one writing prompt. Today’s writing prompt is:
Wrap It Up
As I continue blogging . . .
This fun little experiment started as a way to get used to this new site, as well as encouraging my writing to flow again. I’ve written thousands of words over the past twenty challenges and am pleased to say that I’m happy with at least 75% of them.
It took me back to the days when I used to write film reviews for Vinci’s Pick. I would come home from school, have dinner, and spend four hours trying to craft the perfect sentences and analogies and jokes. Back then, it was tough. All thoughts were stubbornly clunky. They stuck to my prose like treacle, and I lamented that I couldn’t write with the same flourishes as newspaper reviews.
Slowly and surely, however, things improved. My brain’s tap that first dribbled and sputtered out incoherent phrases began to trickle, then stream, and finally flow. I think I’m only realising now that starting my own blog helped me exponentially in regards to my summer exams. After months of trying to squeeze out the sentences, writing paragraphs on Odysseus, Nora Helmer, and Rodolpho was a breeze.
But after starting university, I blogged less and less frequently. Sure, I wrote for the BlogSoc on occasion, but I was otherwise writing essays and planning plays and productions I was desperate to put on; blogging fell to the wayside.
In 2017, I rekindled Vinci’s Pick as I attempted to review every production I saw at the Edinburgh Fringe. I was again met with that familiar problem of my creativity drying up and the words clogging the page in the most obstinate of ways.
Nowadays, I write for a living, so when I started this project, I found the first post to be a breath of fresh air. I relished in lauding my productivity lessons, tips, and tricks into the ether of the blogosphere, and unexpectedly, people actually engaged in the content – that’s the highest achievement I could possibly get from these random scribblings.
Sure, some challenges have been incredibly difficult. I admit that I had absolutely no idea how to wrap up the previous nineteen days of posts, but here I am, ten minutes in, my fingers still flitting across the keyboard.
So will I continue to blog? I’m unsure. It would be easier to say that I will definitely write more. I am taking on more freelance work and have so many WhatCulture ideas and lists to be getting on with. I’ve finally found a niche for my new YouTube channel: around10percent, so I can’t wait to start scripting videos. In terms of this challenge, there are a couple of Everyday Inspiration posts that I believe have the potential for professional development.
Ultimately, this exercise has reminded me that I always have a place to write. If I ever get writer’s block, if I face an arduous writing task where the words slog along like smothering magma, at least I know I can shake off that stress here. Keeping the core spinning; moving forward one step at a time; creating poetry and prose.
I am lucky to have this space.
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Thanks for reading! We made it!
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