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Anton

I kinda have a beef with this kind of challenges.

There is a difference between writing and writing and publishing at the same time.

When, for example, authors like Ray Bradbury wrote that they wrote at least thousand words a day they didn't publish their work right away. They wrote drafts and had the time to edit and correct their work. Which caused them to produce work of a better quality.

I guess it depends on the purpose. If the purpose only to get into the habit of writing then the challenge is acceptable. On the other hand when the purpose is to write good articles then writing and publishing every day becomes quite a challenge. In my opinion it becomes unnecessary challenge. You can write every day but publish once a week.

So, what else is there to consider?

And you have to ask?

You don't know?

The other thing to consider is style. How is style important to you?

Style is indispensable when it comes to having an imprinting impact on the reader.

Here's I think I have a tip in case someone wants to improve their style and that is to use a simple "what if" technique:
What if I inject more adjective into my article?
What if I inject more action into my article?
What if I use metaphors?
What if I use literary devices?
What if I turn this sentence into a question?
What if I turn this sentence into a statement?

And now I thought of another practice to develop style. Whenever you stumble upon a poorly written article in terms of style that has good ideas you can try to rewrite improving upon the style.

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Levi ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

I’m doing this to get into the habit of publishing/shipping daily. I don’t have any ambitions to improve my writing by posting daily, if anything it might get lazier lol

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Anton

In that case, the challenge is good.

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Levi ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

Yep! If any of the ideas get a decent amount of views I’ll probably expand on them in future posts.