I Tried to Write a Story per Day and Failed
5 reasons why I couldn’t keep up with one story per day
When you are looking for writing tips on the internet, a common piece of advice is to write more. There are countless articles like “Daily Writing Helped Me Improve” or “How I Write 10.000 Words Per Day”. So as a fairly novice writer myself, I set a goal to write and publish one story per day for the month of July. However, after the unlucky number of 13 days, I failed and missed a day. Here are some of the reasons why.
1. Time
I am a slow writer. It takes me a long time to find good sentence structures with proper words. And that’s just the writing itself. Depending on the story, other steps may take up as much time as the writing. Probably the most common area I write in is programming. Many programming stories include code snippets. It doesn’t matter whether it is code I wrote on the same day or years ago, I have to go over the code sections meticulously because I want to make sure that there are no obvious mistakes and I didn’t overlook anything.
Another aspect of writing that takes up a lot of time is research. Unless it is a pure narration of what I did or experienced, pretty much every story includes research. Even in programming, there are many things I do on a daily basis that I only have…
