A Post a Day in May #1: Background and Commitments

I have pledged to write a new post for this blog every day in May.

This is the second time I’ve committed to an intentional daily writing practice, with actual readers in mind, during the month of May; the first time was last year. That time, I emailed my daily writing to three selected readers - my partner, my mother and my writing collaborator. It was a great experience for me, as I developed a routine of daily writing that became both pleasurable and productive. Out of that commitment and routine came the public launching of this Five Years a Writer blog later that year. 

This year, I’ll use this blog to share my pieces, which will be public (to the extent that anyone out there actually reads Five Years a Writer, of course). Regardless of the who and the size of my readership, I shall enjoy putting thoughts into coherent form and sending them out into cyberspace every day.  

Just as ‘you cannot be what you cannot see’, so I believe that ‘you have to do the thing you want to be’ — merely thinking about it isn’t going to get you there. Well. I want to be a writer — in my mind, my routine, and my identity. To become that — to genuinely feel honest about describing myself as a writer, I need to actually write. This year’s A Post a Day in May is one more step in the journey of becoming what I want to be: a writer. 

For better or worse, I’ll publish one piece every day. Maybe a short essay, maybe a rant, possibly a haiku — who knows: maybe a short story. But one piece of writing. Every day. Let’s see where this goes, shall we? 

Thanks for reading. 

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