Daily Writing: Future Goals and Habits

I want to create an eco-community in Sweden by 2027, as part of Catfarm Education’s network. I calculated I’ll need to save up 50,000 euros, so one of my objectives in 2022 is to become a full-time technical writer. Two months ago, I was hired as a freelance writer by a content marketing startup called Embarque, run by indie founder Julian Canlas. Now I plan to go all-in in the writing life, participate in Embarque’s growth, launch a technical blog, and save at least 1000 euros per month.

Going all-in also means taking up my daily writing habit again, because after all, a writer writes. The more the better. I need to train my writing muscles, and I know for a fact that publishing at least one blog post per day is the way to go.

2022 writing goals

Back in 2018 I took up the challenge of publishing at least 200 words every day, and I kept at it for 764 days. 300,000 words total.

Then I stopped. But I learned a lot about the writing process along the way. 50,000 words worth of knowledge, to be exact.

The goals of this new daily writing streak will be slightly different:

• I’ll be focusing on both quality and quantity.
• I’ll concentrate on sharing useful insights mixed with storytelling instead of just writing whatever is on my mind.
• No word count, just pure added value with a preference for short-form content.
• I’ll also be posting on my own website, without a care in the world about search engine optimization.
• I want to reach a writing streak of 170 days, ending on June 1st. Rest is key, I won’t repeat the same mistakes as last time.

What my daily writing routine looks like

• I default to reading, every day. RSS feeds and books on my Kindle, with a focus on learning life’s first principles. The topic doesn’t matter, I just try to learn one new thing every day, solving my own problems.
• I use my Google Pixel 6’s offline speech-to-text feature to drastically increase my daily word count: 250 words per minute instead of the usual 40 typing.
• I write on Google Docs to easily access my drafts in any condition. Whether I’m walking or biking, I can voice-type.
• I curate all my content once a week in a newsletter.
• I use daily writing as an experimentation lab for bigger writing goals-blogs, books, or SaaS startups.
• I walk and meditate at least once a day.
• I ideate with a piece of paper and a calligraphy pen, usually at night in my bell tent, using mindmaps.
• I share my writings on Twitter and publish on my personal website using Markdown.