Today is the last day of BEDA. Blogging all month made me realize I actually do have time to write everyday. I waste time or I decide I don't feel like writing, so I don't bother. BEDA made me realize, though, that I can make time to write. It's a matter of thinking about something to write and then sitting down to write it. Just requires some focus. I'm happy I found out about BEDA a few days before it started so I could set a personal goal to see it through 30 consecutive days on the ning.
I've tried setting goals to write everyday before. I keep a hand-written journal, and there are stretches where I don't miss a day for a week or two but never more than that. I end up forgetting to write, or I don't have a block of time to sit down, think, and write. BEDA forced me to make time, though. The fact that I was posting online and that I knew a few people would be reading kept me accountable and motivated to keep on going. Some days I was really tired, actually didn't have time to write much, or didn't have something to write about but I still wrote a paragraph or two.
Congratulations to everyone who participated in BEDA, thank you to those of you who have read my blog, and thank you to Maureen Johnson for sharing such an awesome idea with us.
(By they way, I haven't read any of Maureen's books, so I'm going to visit the bookstore when I'm back home. Any suggestions for what I should read first?)
The image at the top of this post is by barunpatro on stock.xchng. It's been sitting on my desktop for a while and I've been waiting for an opportunity to use it. The end of BEDA is fitting.
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