Today is day 31. I’ve made it! A post every day for a month. So is it the end of the line? Yes and no.
I’ve talked about a few more writing ideas, and I’ve made a start on the cook book. It’s proving an interesting exercise to capture what you cook every day, where you’ve fiddled with cookbook recipes, where you’ve invented your own. Trying to set it down in language that will make it easy to use, whatever the age of the chef.
More blogging? I think so. Maybe not straight away. Or maybe… yes. The cunning thing about the 31 days is that it is pretty much the length of time it’s meant to take to break a habit – or form a new one. Now being used to writing every day, it may just prove easier to keep going.
This time, I’d like to do a little planning on content. Maybe not uploading posts every day, but maybe still writing every day, if I can manage it, and being more selective in what gets posted up. I quite like the notion of the Monday/Wednesday/Friday school of blogging, and hopefully it doesn’t besiege the faithful reader (yes Dr G, that’s you) quite as often. So – watch this space.
Has it been worth it? For me, yes. And maybe the biggest thing to take away is the importance of the writer enjoying the process. Trying on ideas for size. Spinning a set of images, and seeing which way up they fall.
So here’s one more. I love a description of drawing that I came across: taking a line for a walk. It speaks of being playful, being prepared to submit to the process, following an idea as it makes its way in the world. It even makes me feel that I could try it, sometime.
Can I do the same with words? Hopefully, yes.