Here we are on September 14th, 2017. Exactly one year after I started my daily blog. I’ve written 365 posts and you can read them all here on zcjones.com. Since I started my daily blog I’ve written a self published book, landed an internship writing blog posts, written an ebook, written another ebook and started ghost writing a book.
I took one english class in college. I never believed I could write. My grammar isn’t perfect. I misuse words. I make typos. But none of that stuff matters. What matters is the progress. When I started the daily blog, it took me a while to write a post. Maybe a thirty minutes to an hour for a few hundred words. As the year went on, I got better and better at putting words on paper. My words per minute went way up and the flow came easier.
I was a math guy in high school. To think that I would graduate college and become “a writer” was absolutely insane to me. It would have been insane four years ago and it would have been insane had you told me one year ago. It’s still mind-blowing to me that my business card can say “writer” and I’m actually telling the truth.
I have the privilege of working for Horn Entrepreneurship to put words to paper. I helped drive an alumni success stories campaign, I’m writing ebooks and blog posts and web copy and more. All these opportunities came because I showed up. I showed up every day. Even when I was exhausted. Even when al I wanted to do was fall asleep. I still wrote and published it on my blog.
Seth Godin does an interview and the very first question is, “Seth, what’s your secret?” To which Seth replies, “There is no secret. That’s the best part.”
There is no secret to how you start a daily blog and how you become a writer. That’s the best part. Show up. Do the work. Lean into the growth because it will come.
It’s an honor that you’re reading my words,
Zack