Benefits of a 30 Day Challenge
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Day 29 Question by @dragosroua
May 30 Days Writing Challenge - Day Twenty Nine: What’s The Most Consistent Benefit From This Challenge So Far?
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Benefits
Daily Posting
Let's first talk about the obvious benefits of entering a challenge like that. Obviously, it is designed to get into the habit of daily posting. As a habit-forming exercise, that wasn't significant for me since I am already doing that. As a matter of fact, I am at day 222 publishing my Daily Freewrite Prompt.
I was also nominated to participate in a 7-day gratitude challenge (and a couple of others I ignored for now). So, in a sense when one is already in the habit of posting several times a day, adding a challenge might be a bit overwhelming to the followers.
Different Topics
That said, I enjoyed writing about Steem and topics about applications and behaviors on the platforms. Those are not my usual topics so it was fun to explore them.
Money
Of course, an extra post a day means some more money coming in. I can't say that any of the challenge posts did particularly well. But every bit helps.
Designing a System
During this challenge, I got pretty good at creating a "brand" for this kind of post. After playing around a bit with the design, I settled on the elements I wanted on the graphics and the layout of the posts. That made it easy and fast to create a new graphics for each topic. Then, I followed a similar framework for each post which makes them easy to write.
Making New Friends
That was by far the best part of the challenge. Through the comments, I got to know @glenalbrethsen through his post length insights and tips, and @michaelluchies. Both are experienced writers and I can learn from their expertise. And Michael joined the #freewrite which I am super excited about.
Also, it was fun to read my friends @fitinfun's posts and find out that many days, we almost wrote identical posts. What was that about great minds......?
Overall, I didn't see a whole lot of interaction between the participants and it felt a bit like playing in the boy's club.
My Previous Posts for this Challenge
Day 2 -How to Handle a Windfall of 1000 Steem
Day 3 -Trying to Chose the Best Thing Steemit Has Done for Me
Day 4 - 5 Witnesses and my Why
Day 5 - My Top 5 Crypto Holdings - Day 5
Day 6 - Why am I still on Steemit - Day 5 - 30 Day Writing Challenge
Day 7 - 3 Things I Like to Change on Steemit
Day 8 - Most Consistent Hobby in the Past 5 Years.
Day 9 -Steemit in 5 Years from Now
Day 10 - My Favorite Morning Drink
Day 11 - Hive Mind or Smart Media Tokens
Day 12 - Most Popular Crypto Currency in Five Years
Day 13 - My 3 Top Cities
Day 14 -My Favorite Writing topic
Day 15 -How Many Posts Per Day?
Day 16 - Steemit & I in Five Years
Day 17- If Steemit Stops Paying - Stay or Leave?
Day 18 -My "Other" Social Media Life
Day 19 - My Three Favorite Movies
Day 20 - The First Person(s) I followed on Steemit
Day 21 - The Worst Thing about Steemit for Me
Day 22 - What Do I Consider a Worthy Post on Steemit
Day 23 -Commenting on Steemit
Day 24 -Three Accounts I Follow
Day 25 - My Favorite app to Post on Steem
Day 26 - My Favorite Tool on the Steem Blockchain
Day 27 -How Many Comments Do I Upvote?
Day 28 - Would I start a Steemit Clone?
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Well, I'm glad to have met you, too, and it's true, it's primarily happened through the writing challenge. However, we're both in Asher's leagues, so it was bound to happen and continue to happen through that.
I agree with all of your points. I kind of ran out of STEEM on both these challenges because while I don't mind giving my opinions about STEEM and Steemit, talking about it nearly every day is a little more than I care for. Gratitude is something I could probably talk about more, but again, it's not what my principle motivation for being here is, and I feel like, even though I've continued to publish posts from my WIP throughout, I've been neglecting it. I did seem some financial uptick and more people seemed to actually comment on the posts, so that's all positive.
Overall, a good experience, just would like the subject matter to be a little more diverse. And since I've been trying to post a couple of times a day, too, who knows, maybe it's impacted followers? I don't think the vast majority are reading, anyway. :)
And that is the truth - many are not reading the posts LOL
I have often found it frustrating that if I do a quick steepshot post with a cute dog, chicken, or kids picture, I often get way more comments and upvotes than for articles I spend a long time writing.
Oh well. Such is life :)
I often wonder how people choose to spend their time. I know in some cases it's work and family and other responsibilities and so the quick image, meme, short post or video is what they go for. But then there's just a bunch of people who hate to read, or who have short attention spans, or have something else they'd rather be doing that isn't any more important, just more important to them. So, since they want to vote on things as fast as they can, they jump on whatever. It doesn't help really.
I've been trying not to do my very best work in the beginning, but do my next best work so that I at least get people interested in what I'm writing. At whatever point I can say I have a sufficient following, I'll start spending more time on things. There needs to be a balance, and a lot of it is psychological. Do the best that you can with posts that don't need anymore than an hour and a half, and build from there.
I try for a mix of things. Of course, the writing prompt and the reading of the freewrites takes a lot of my time. But ideally, I like to have a good mix of different topics and media - video, audio, photo, and posts...
So do you think that having the different media helps? If you're already going for different topics, does how people consume it seem to be helping as far as engagement and upvotes go, or does it tend to dilute things because you're not concentrating on one form or another? Or would you say results are mixed? Trying to cover the bases here. :) And i don't have any particular bias or opinion here. Just hoping to get your personal thoughts and observations from doing it.
there are some that really like video, others like posts with some pictures and not much writing, a few like long articles. I am trying to do more Dlive.
It seems to me that it is a minority that actually likes long articles. For me, I spend most of my effort with the freewriters. I am a bit niched there.
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P.S. I kept meaning to join into this but never found the time, I also need to get back to the #freewrite but with less than a week until we fly out to get our bub, time seems a little elusive. Thanks for giving us things to write about daily. @insideoutlet
Thank you so much!!! And so exciting that you are getting ready to be a mom. You will have even less time :)
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Thank you very much!!!
I think you could add discovery. The challenge gave us a chance to see you and your passions. Thanks!
Thank you for that!! I hadn't thought about that!
@mariannewest You hinted at it! ❤️
Thank you for that!! I hadn't thought about that!
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