What I Learned Writing Every Day on Medium

Publishing 3 times a day was enlightening

Janine-Marisha
4 min readJan 25, 2022
Photo by Milada Vigerova on Unsplash

In December I randomly decided to do a writing challenge. In all honesty, I didn’t fully think it through. I forgot about the Christmas holidays, the fact that I have my classic last-minute present shopping to do and I also had to work.

However, I am glad I made the effort. I published 3 times per day, read loads of other writers’ work, and didn’t look at the stats for a whole month.

Spoiler alert I will not be sticking to this habit but it did teach me a lot. I’d recommend a writing challenge to anyone as it teaches you what you enjoy, what kind of writer you want to be, and how it feels to write every day.

I discovered a love of poetry

Writing whatever I wanted led to me writing Haiku poems. They were quick to write, helped me publish 3 times per day as I didn’t always have the time to write 3 articles and I enjoyed it.

When I started writing what I wanted I instinctively turned to poetry. It made me (re) discover this hobby.

Medium for me is not a source of income so I’m able to do what I want. There is real freedom on this site and my challenge made me realize I don’t have to write what everyone else seems to be writing (How…

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Janine-Marisha

Usually writing or taking pictures — remote worker and part-time freelance tutor, editor, and writer. Following my dream to be an author