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99 Days Of Words, Photos, And Fun
99 Days Of Words, Photos, And Fun.
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It’s day 99 of the 100 Days Project, and I’m excited and a little nervous. Today’s post will be the gratuitous project recap and the announcement of the two winners of the “3rd Ever Daily Dropbear Blog Weird Monthly Prizes Award of Excellence” award. However, I have one more writing day in this project and want to end it with a story, not a recap, so you get the recap today.The 100 Days Project was conceived as a way for me to get out of my head and just write. I’m writing several business books, at least half a dozen children’s books, and several novels and scripts, and they are all fighting for time to appear on the written page. Sorting and knowing which of my creative juices to squeeze to write productively has been a challenge, so I needed a focused challenge: 100 Days to consistently put words to page (and battle my nemesis, The Apostrophe).
Also, 100 days of pictures from my adventures.
And here we are on Day 99. Yes, I’ve missed a few days here and there, and in the best cases, it was travel-related, and other times it was me over-writing what I wrote the day before due to sheer exhaustion. But, I mean, who does this sort of thing at 6 AM every morning? What was I thinking?As of today I have published 59,568 words and have averaged 601.6969697 words per post (and 170 unique photos). For reference, the average novel has 70,000 to 100,000 words; the average business book has 50,000 to 60,000 words; the average children’s book is 1,000 to 2,500 words. These 99 posts have been pretty random—I didn’t know what I’d write about from day to day—sometimes, I’d cover a story over several posts, but mostly I didn’t set an agenda about what to write about every day.
What is my takeaway here?
If I spend two hours writing every day, over 100 days, I will have written 60,000 words—the equivalent of one business book. Therefore, ipso-facto, ego creo ergo sum: I should easily be able to write three business books per year, or two novels a year, or 72 children’s books. Or some combination thereof. Ha.I just needed to know I could do it, which is why I challenge myself to do things. If you are so inclined, my next adventure will be writing about business and brands on BrandJitsu.com which will go live at the end of April 2022.
Thank you to everyone who has joined me on this ride. I will continue to write about my personal adventures on this blog, so this isn’t the end. I just won’t be doing it every day.
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I would love to hear from you. What do you think of this project? What was your favourite (or least favourite) post? What do you want more (or less) of?
Finally, I really wish I had the budget to make you all winners, but the names of the winners for the “3rd Ever Daily Dropbear Blog Weird Monthly Prizes Award of Excellence” award are:
Laura H and Mike B. Please send me an email with your mailing address to letters@MichaelDargie.com, and I will promptly send out your “3rd Ever Daily Dropbear Blog Weird Monthly Prizes Award of Excellence” award.