90 in 90 – challenge for me and my students
Posted by Jeremy on June 15, 2011 · 3 Comments
Quick post here to make an announcement.
One of my students took on Brad King’s 90-in-90 challenge, which has someone blogging every day for 90 days. Then she started to wrestle with it a bit; what if it wasn’t worth blogging about?
Nonsense. She’s a great writer and blogging is a way for her to unleash those skills, to learn and grow. Confidentially, I think she’s one of the better writers I’ve ever had in a class. Actually that’s not confidential. She needs to know she has supporters, but more to the point she needs to realize at some point that you write for you; the fans will come.
Time to be proactive here. I’ve offered to take the plunge with her. Starting tomorrow, I’ll blog every day for 90 days too. I’m going to cheat a bit in that I’m going to post some on my dad blog and a few times on this one, but it’s a post per day. They’ll be numbered and such.
You write because you need to, not because you have to. And when the swamp of ideas is drained, you learn a lot about yourself as you keep going.
I also want to invite any of my students, current or former, to join us. Or anyone else. It’s more fun jumping off bridges when you do it together. Your mom never told you that? If you have a blog, get to it. If you don’t have one, create one. And be sure to tell me about it in the comments so we can all read!
Great idea! Thanks for posting this. Good luck to you and your students.
When I first started blogging, a common piece of advice I got from other bloggers was to force yourself to write every day. Even if it’s just a paragraph, just make sure you get at least one post out a day. It was really hard at first, but now if I go a day or two without writing I start getting kinda twitchy. It’s really addicting if you can lock in the habit.
I’ve got my first of the 90 in 90 up. Why should your students have all the fun? http://bit.ly/llX785