Hahaha that's a nice challenge you gave yourself: Writing every day a post for a whole month. With more than 1000 posts done, I thought I may have had the pleasure of having reached the month post batch, but I didn't. I must say, in the last two years I've been much less posting than the years before. But when I post, I seem to spend at least 3 hours on a post, so when I would like to challenge myself with the same challenge you gave yourself, I need to find a lot of time.
Regarding the 'notes' thingy: I do something similar. Whenever I encounter a topic that I think I can write something about, I note it and maybe add some keywords so I remember what I was thinking when the topic was in my mind. But, I rarely seem to use this list. Not sure why. What I do know is that a few times I actually went through the list to get inspiration, I felt most of the topics on the list were either not the topic I wanted to think about now or a topic of less interest than I thought, or a topic that passed its momentum, or... Many or's :)
Anyways, I guess I won't give myself the challenge you gave yourself, and I do hope you'll be getting there soon, batched up and all! Wish you all the fun with this journey of yours ;)
The author Jeff Goins has built a brand off of challenging his followers to write 500 words a day. Doesn't matter what they are or if you publish them, just write 500 words a day. The principle behind doing so is to prime the creativity pump.
Julia Cameron is known for author pages which is starting each day by writing (by hand) 3 pages. Again doesn't matter what, just put the words on paper. Same principle.
I have found when I write more consistently that my words do flow more. But then, I've usually found once I have read or made enough notes to get started on writing the words, I can hit 1000 words in 30 minutes or so. It's getting the thought process flowing that takes me time.
Then having written 1000 words, I spend the next 30 minutes chopping the extra language out of my writing. The writer's version of 2 steps forward, 3 steps back except we end up with tighter, cleaner writing.
Wow, 60 minutes only? for 1k words? The 3 hours I mentioned, is from zero to publication, which usually includes an image I create, the formatting, the publication itself. Not sure what time I usually take for 'just' the writing. Maybe 60min instead of your 30min? Maybe a little less, or even more? Need to time it next time 🙃
I have the experience with long-form comments, I write quicker; I suppose writing a comment is easier to write an interesting post.
Jeff and Julia: Both interesting concepts! A few years ago when I was writing more frequent, I believe I was more creative. Yesterday I was saying this to a friend when reading some of my old posts of 4+ years ago. So, they may be right in what the claim 😉