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What I Learned About Myself as a Writer After 100 Articles
Quality writing is a marathon, not a sprint
One hundred is significant. Anytime you reach that number, there should be a ticker tape parade.
There wasn’t any fanfare when I hit “publish” on my 100th article on Medium this weekend.
In my mind, it was a big milestone. I had been writing on Medium for over six months.
I did buy some ice cream that day, so I celebrated in my own way.
I was enjoying that tasty treat as a reward for my hard work.
I jotted down what I had learned about myself while writing those 100 articles.
Burn out and try not to fade away
I work a 9–5 job, so when I bought Eve Arnold’s course about writing on Medium I thought I would become a superhuman scribe.
I completed the course and committed to posting on Medium daily.
After two months of grinding out a story a day, it’s an impossible pace.
It was an awful treadmill. I was always under the gun when I came home from work. I woke up early, worked through lunch, and published before I went to my job the next day.
