I participated in the January 2022 cohort Ship30for30.

This means that I wrote and published an atomic essay each day for the last 30 days. In fact, this is my 30th essay! I have to admit, it was a great experience!

I still need to dive down and reflect on everything. But if you would ask me at this moment what I learned in these 30 days, I would probably tell you the following things:

My learnings

• Everyone can start writing.

• Writing is amazing and makes a ton of fun!

• There's more to writing than I thought before. When you start writing down your ideas and thoughts, I would go so far as to say that writing can start to transform your life.

• When you begin writing and publishing, you become more open and start consuming consciously, always looking out for new ideas. I generated tons of ideas to write about and still have a huge backlog!

• Being part of a community is amazing and helps a lot going this way.

• Writing is giving and taking. Give feedback and receive feedback. Engagement is key.

• When building a writing habit, doing this for 30 days is good. But for me, towards the end, it was getting more difficult.

• Focussing on progress instead of perfection is one of the most important learnings, and you can apply that to many more areas of your life.

• Once you learned the basics and built the habit, you can extend this and use it for whatever you like, whether this is for a blog, a landing page, a newsletter, Threads on Twitter, an e-book, a digital product, an online course, etc.

• I don't know if it's because I am an introvert, but sometimes the engaging part was really difficult. Engagement takes time!

• Some of my analytics for the last 28 days

  • More than 100 new followers

  • Tweets increased by over 500%

  • Tweet impressions increased by over 600%

  • Profile visits increased by over 400%

  • Mentions increased by over 400%

I'm really thankful for this experience and definitely would recommend it to anyone interested in starting writing.

Here are my next steps

• First, I need to take a small break. I feel like the quality of my last essays has decreased a bit. I will use the next week for the following bullet points.

• Deep reflection on the last 30 days.

• Deep dive into my analytics.

• Break down and optimize my personal content categories and preferred voice and formats.

• Continue to develop knowledge on writing.

• Find out what's the best way for me to create and engage.

• Put it all into a (content) strategy.

• Keep writing & publishing regularly.