On September 28, 2021, I decided once again to write at least 1,000 words a day, regardless of topic or quality, and to challenge how many consecutive days I could do this.

As of October 19, 2021, 22 days have passed, and the results are as follows: 3 days have not been written, 2 days have been written but the words are not enough, and the remaining 17 days have been completed and most of them are far more than 1000 words. The maximum number of consecutive days is 8. Published 7 articles.

Why is the emphasis again? This decision has been made many times before. I wrote 500 words in 100 consecutive days in 2015, and then decided to write at least three times next time. I had a good start but failed to write 100 days. I’m not talking about why I didn’t do it. Any excuse is an excuse.

This decision, is it real? right I made a serious decision to write for 100 days. It’s the highest priority and worth doing for a long time until it becomes a daily routine. Reach 100 days, then reach 1000 days, or have a chance to reach 10000 days.

I can do it, okay? Not necessarily. But here’s what I must do: faithfully record my daily action data. Did you write today? Did you reach 1000 words? And, more importantly, I pay special attention to and deal with those critical moments when I don’t write for whatever reason. I will not be discouraged, annoyed, or guilty of any interruption for any reason, and whenever it occurs I will pick it up as soon as possible and move on.

Why writing? It’s not enough to train your writing skills. Writing is a thinking and recording tool that will serve several other long-term initiatives. In other words, thinking writing alone offers the opportunity to advance multiple visions simultaneously. This process, naturally will accumulate a large number of words. I will choose the topics I often write about, and continue to comb and deepen.

What’s wrong with publicizing targets? What’s wrong with that? You see, after all, it’s been 22 days since I made up my mind to do something. Every day I think about it. Now that I’ve made progress, it’s a good time to go public with my decision. The day I made my decision, I told myself to go ahead and announce my decision when I found it easier to keep going. Yes, I’m more sure I can do it now than I was when I first made up my mind.

What is courage? My courage is not only the courage to reveal my true self to others, but also the courage to accept the imperfection, unfinished and halfway done in the past, and then remove the psychological burden and start again. Do you know why? I didn’t know reason, that is, dare to blindly, now I have a good reason: no one can come up to be a perfect, if a thing is worth doing for a long time, the exploration and trial and error is inevitable, what’s more, every time a new start, have previous experience of trial and error to pave the way, then do it and also more close to the distance.

Before I acted, I tried to analyze why I had made up my mind to keep writing a few times in the past, what had held me back, and whether it would hold me back again. Should I give myself enough motivation to write before I start?

The good news is that we can replicate our own success. The day I decided to continue writing again, I also decided not to drink coffee again. After a painful week of caffeine abstinence, I have been completely successful in 22 days so far. Here’s what I learned: If you’ve been trying to do something for years and it hasn’t worked out, don’t worry about motivation or why you’re doing it now. You’ve already figured it out. Just do it now. If you encounter difficulties that you can’t solve, then search, consult, think, explore and so on together, and finally solve it, play strange brush experience ah.

The success of not drinking coffee gave me the confidence to keep writing. But it’s important to note that these two things have very different difficulty curves. No coffee, just get through the first 7 to 10 days of severe caffeine withdrawal, after which there is little difficulty. Continuing to write will continue to encounter difficulties.

Such as:

  • With nothing to write about, where and how can I find something to write about?
  • Do it first thing in the morning when you run out of time?
  • What write is all broken stuff, rotten to oneself all feel embarrassed, how to do?
  • What I want to write is hard to write. How important it is to write. How can I always procrastinate?
  • Some content I wrote, also can oneself see, cannot open hair, how can ability exchange grow?
  • Is it meaningful and growing to write in such a running account? Is it formalism?
  • Always the record of life and growth of thinking, all kinds of focus on writing their own, how narrow ah, to others have inspiration?
  • Isn’t it awkward that self-analysis is always about revealing flaws or talking about privacy?
  • It always takes too much time to change an article for public release, but there seems to be no progress in writing and no feedback after Posting. What should I do?

This list of questions could go on for thousands of words if I wanted to. So, let’s stop right there.

Some questions have answers, some don’t. But that doesn’t stop writing 1,000 words a day from going on. But why?

Sometimes that’s the way it is, you don’t need all the confusion to move on. There’s something called honest, clumsy persistence.

Besides, reading and writing are two different things. We read so many good articles and books for so many years, but we rarely practice our writing skills. Now just start to write, take their own reading standards to ask yourself to continue to write good articles, this is not self-demanding, this is pure naivete.

Even if it is just a daily diary, you first write 100 days, reach 100,000 words or more. This is stupid. Crossed cost line, heaven and earth nature can suddenly broad.

Finally, take the opportunity to find a fellow writer who is consistently writing 500 or 1,000 words a day. You don’t have to disclose what you’re writing. Let’s form a small group, and when everyone does something for the day, they just take a dip in the group. Each week we pick a topic that most people want to talk about, and brainstorm ways to solve the puzzles and obstacles to writing consistently.