Being a better writer is a goal I believe anyone could benefit from, myself included. It’s why I started this blog.

Instead of deliberately working to improve my writing I fear I often post to tick a box. Write it quickly and just get it done. Just going through the motions.

Maybe that’s something to do with the format I’ve chosen – to post every day for a year – but I think it would be a problem regardless. If you only have to post once a week, you only rush to get something done that day. It’s possible to work on it on and off all week but that never happens.

It’s not possible to give over every moment of every day to the crafting of the perfect piece of writing for this website. There are too many other things to do. Oddly, each can become a way of avoiding the other.

Taking the easy road is no good if you want to improve, you must instead take the harder, more difficult route to have any chance of improving. Sometimes though it’s hard to tell which route you’ve taken.

This is the one hundredth day I’ve posted on this site. I hope I’m not just going through the motions.