#NaBloPoMo Day 30 - And the challenge ends!

The 30 day blogging challenge comes to an end today. After 27 posts in 27 days, I skipped the last 2 days due to travel. So did I miss the perfect 30 day streak at the fag end of the challenge? I don't think so. 27 posts in as many days has been great enough for me. Sure, I could have done the perfect 30 but perfect is so boring. Who's interested in perfect! It's the I-just-missed-it-and-yet-I-am-happy stories that are human. It's the vulnerable that we connect to. It's the imperfect that makes us feel better about our foibles and weaknesses.

Also, I think it's fun to break rules sometimes. It's liberating to take on a 30 day and do the unexpected - not do the perfect 30. I kept for all these days - through insanely busy days and pretty tiring nights. But if I tried to do it just to make a perfect 30, it wouldn't be me. I knew I couldn't have blogged during the weekend because of logistical issues and so I let go. It's great to take up a challenge. But it's also important to be able to let go. To not make things matter so much to us that we lose perspective. So what it's worth for, I thoroughly enjoyed the blogging challenge. This is definitely going as an achievement in my writing life. Stay tuned for the wonderful things doing this challenge has taught me - coming up soon.

I'd like to thank everyone who inspired me to write, left comments on my blog, shared my posts on social media and made this enjoyable journey even more delightful! Thank You!

(Btw, I am writing on a train from Delhi to Mumbai with limited connectivity. But I had to write this post and express my love for this wonderful blogging month of my life)

#NaBloPoMo: Day 1 - It's time to take on the challenge!

It's time to make up for all the lost time. It's time to pay back for all the excuses for not writing. It's time to leave sloth behind. It's time to take up a challenge. And it's time to prove to myself that I can do it! And to do this, I am taking up the November Blog Posting Month challenge, commonly known as #NaBloPoMo hosted by BlogHer

The most common complaint about blogging is not being able to find time to write. We all have plenty of time. And yet we often fail to find that creative slot in the day when we can put our thoughts down and post online. I think there's more anxiety of not being able to post than the joy of being able to write. I am someone who writes when inspiration hits me. If writing becomes forced and laboured, it doesn't make sense (Unless you are do it as a part of your work). But waiting for inspiration sometimes, well most of the times, turns into laziness and life just takes over. I have had my share of excuses. But this time I have decided take it up and just do it!

What is life without a few challenges thrown in! And one involving writing has to be the most exciting!