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A New Milestone: 1800 Posts
Earlier this week, I promised I’d write about some recent milestones. Today, I am writing my 1800th post on my WordPress blog, The Apples in My Orchard! Eighteen hundred posts! Wow!
I’ve been writing daily since the end of February 2017, so it’s been almost five and a half years of posting. It’s not quite that long, since August has just started, but to be fair I used five and a half to divide 1800. This number gives me the average number of posts I’ve written per year for the last 5.5 years. And it’s 327 posts per year! You do know there are 365 days per year, right?
Without question, that is a lot of writing. I got into the daily writing habit years ago and it’s persisted through busy times in my life like when I worked at the local land trust, was giving community presentations on a variety of subjects, and had kids graduating from high school and college, health crises with my elderly parents, went on vacation, finished grad school, and even had a life-changing retirement move. If I don’t write daily, there is a damn good reason. None of the above qualified to make me stop for any extended period. If I don’t write, something serious must be up.
And, yes, I have taken breaks. A break from writing for me means a day or two (at the most) here or there. The one thing I’ve learned along the way is if you stop writing, people will stop reading…
