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Some recap.

 Hey. Fancy seeing you here.

This is, thankfully, not a continuation of the previous posts. Rather than just jumping to another topic straight away, I figured this was a good time to look back on the last week.

As some of you may remember, the whole idea of this blog was to do a writer challenge. Thirty days of daily posting. Including today, we are almost 1/4 of the way there.

In a personal note, I decided on such a challenge mostly to force myself to let the words flow out. Having a direct - albeit self-imposed - obligation helps me pace myself better. Not only that, but the fact that a blog post a day is such a clear objective, a tangible goal that I can grasp, it makes me motivated to keep going.

At first, I had problems deciding what to write about. Then, even with a topic I struggled how to start, and how to keep going. I'm so used to novels that the idea of non-continuous narration is an alien concept to me. Even the mere greetings at first of each post fill me with dread; is it polite enough? Am I repeating myself? After this week, however, I seem to have understood some things, at least in direct relation of the direction I want this blog to head. 

For the next week I have already selected what to talk about. I don't know if it's going to span the whole week, but I'm sure the topic has at lest a couple of parts.

And that's it. Some introspection to share with anyone reading.

Until next time.

Todd.

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