Completed 100DaysToOffload!

I've done it! I've written 100 blog posts. Well, this one is a bit of a cheat, so maybe technically I've only written 99?

I started in September 2024, and have finished now, late Feb. Only five months. Well ahead of schedule!

How was it?

Good! I kind of just wrote when I wanted to, which sometimes meant I would write several things in a day, and other times I would go a week maybe without actually writing anything.

Now it's done though, it actually feels a little underwhelming. I'm less happy than I thought I would be... Maybe I was thinking about it too much.

I think it is a really good challenge though, as it gets you to actually write, which is the important thing. You think, well, I should probably write two a week to get it done in time, so actually you end up giving a fair bit of time to it.

Will I do it again?

Absolutely! I'm thinking I'll continue it as #200DaysToOffload this time, and then after that as #300DaysToOffload... Not that I'm going to write 200 blog posts in a year (or 300 - that would be extremely difficult!) but just to let me keep a track of how many I've written in total. I'd like to do this for many years!

The posts themselves

I think some of my posts were a bit... cheaty. Like, I wrote entries for each day I was in Bologna (apart from the ones at the end where there wasn't much to say), which felt a bit like cheating, almost "using up" five posts. Of course, there is no cheating, but it still feels a little like it. Maybe I'll see next time if I can take a bit more time, and be a bit more "selective" about what I write.