Falling behind

# Chapter 343

Each year I fall a little further behind because stuff happens, life happens. Today is anniversary day, the day that I start, and or stop these daily writings. So that means that I should be at chapter 365 instead of chapter 343. Over the course of the last three years that I have been doing this, I have lost some 18 days where I don’t write for whatever reason, probably most of the reasons were travel days. Car travel specifically, these are hard to write going down the interstates. Easier on the airplane. But this shows that no discipline is perfect and the larger question is whether I should continue this practice or bring it to a close after writing over 1000 of these daily 275’s? This is an annual revisiting of this question.

But yes I am going to continue, if for no other reason than I continue to need the practice and discipline. Just read last week about how one of my favorite weekly bloggers wrote for four years to a tiny audience before he became famous. My goal is not to become famous nor infamous, my goal is to write something important well. I have days like that, and then I have days like this, where I write about writing and not especially well. But I learned much this past year, I stopped and then started again and then stopped once more, using prompters to get started each morning. Granted, a good prompt sentence makes this easier each day, than does a blank screen. Anniversaries and assessments are always good. This this has been important to me, but probably not to you.