Why I Wrote on Medium for 100 Days

You guys…I did it! I accomplished my goal of writing a short post every single day for 100 days. Whew. Ok, on to the why.

1. To see if I could do it
2. To write, because I always say that I hate to
3. To be more visible professionally
4. To be accountable personally
5. To make time in every busy day
6. To be proactive and write a few posts at once
7. To wait until the last minute and write a post
8. To hang out on Medium
9. To read more posts by other Medium folks
10. To improve the SEO of Tina Cordes (RIP all the SEO I built up with Tina Glengary)
11. To do research
12. To share all the NYT articles that I read
13. To post photos of the dogs
14. To blend my professional and private selves
15. To feel like I accomplished something
16. To write for strangers
17. To write for my friends and family
18. To share my experience and experiences
19. To ask questions
20. To cross post to LinkedIn
21. To ponder why some posts get read/shared and others don’t
22. To ponder why LinkedIn is weird, but good, but still weird
23. To try to keep each post to a 1 minute or less read
24. To have a pile full of half started posts in the draft folder
25. To play with formatting, but still fall back on lists
26. To realize how much I love lists
27. To write a list that includes loving lists
28. To keep pace with Heather Champ’s 100 Days of Boring Beads
29. To realize that I love writing short, choppy sentences
30. To edit out 25% of the extra words in every post
31. To feel like my writing is too short
32. To get feedback saying short posts are good
33. To connect with old friends (Hi Stephen Koch!)
34. To have some loyal readers (Hi John Manoogian III!)
35. To have my husband recommend almost all my posts (Hi evan cordes!)
36. To be comfortable with my inconsistencies and lack of a specific topic to write about
37. To try to write 100 reasons why, but stop at #37

Let’s see if I write tomorrow. ;)

More of my 100 Days Project on Medium: medium.com/@tiboutoo