BLOG #30
30 Day Writing Challenge – The Conclusion
Today completes my 30 day writing challenge. Here is how writing has improved my quality of life:
1. Decreases Stress – Writing everyday will help you represent and formulate the thoughts in your head. Even brainstorming or writing down your thoughts can help unpack what is going on in your life and helps you create an inner dialogue. Writing can give you confidence and the strength to tackle any challenge. Writing about your struggles can be just as beneficial as writing about your success.
2. Improves your writing skills – Just like anything, practice makes perfect. Writing everyday will help you find your voice and improve your ability to write in a professional and authentic style. During the past 30 days my blogging has included How-to descriptions, personal reflections, copy-writing, and documentation of past work. It will improve your vocabulary.
3. Become more reflective – Writing everyday has made me a more reflective person. Writing can spark creativity and imagination. Writing about personal thoughts or feelings helps you understand who you are and what you want to become. When writing to an audience you get a concrete idea of how you want others to view you and your writing. In my writing, my goal is to be authentic, articulate, and creative.
4. Learn new things about yourself and the world – When constantly writing about current events and personal stories you start to develop an ideology. You learn about what truly matters to you and develop arguments about things you are passionate about. In my writing, my love for design and my desire to learn more about design has been a central theme in my blogging this month. I have also learned that relationships and people are what matter the most to me. Faith, confidence, and the importance of being passionate are constant themes that come out of my writing.
5. Helps document your work – While building my portfolio, writing blogs about work in progress or projects that I have completed is a great reference point to document areas in your portfolio. Not only can you document how you completed a project, but you can also add value to your readers by offering insight, provide step-by-step instructions, or explain what worked well and what was challenging. There is just as much value in teaching a skill than simply presenting your outcome of having a skill. Writing shows others how you work, your thought process, how you tackle a problem or project, and how you go about adding value through your work.
Writing and publishing a blog for 30 days has been challenging, but also valuable to my lifestyle. Although this challenge is over, I can still see myself continuing to write, explore, document, and research. My key takeaway from this challenge is that you have to stay faithful to the thoughts in your head. Writing them down brings them to life.
– Jake Beman