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Today I begin a new experiment: To write one post a day, in 30 minutes or less, every day for 30 days.

It’s a goal. Goals are good, ergo this is good, right? Maybe. It depends on the why - what is it specifically that I am trying to accomplish with this goal.

Side note: I started this post at 10:09 am.

To sum up quite a few conversations, I want to be more prolific in the space of social media. Not because I think I’m an expert, but because I know that…

• I know a lot about it.
• I get it.
• I understand the potential for personal and professional use.
• I love it.
• It’s made my life richer, and I want to share that.
• I want to protect the kool-aid.

I also love to share what I know with others. Plenty of people are involved in social media, but there are even more yet to come for the first time. We all have independent reasons for using social media. I have mine, you have yours, and these certainly don’t have to be the same. But for the person who doesn’t get social media, they don’t even have the opportunity to discover how it can have meaning in their lives. This is not to say that everyone should be involved in social media, but that’s another story for another time, or perhaps just a story that you get by researching other blogs on the subject. I’d like to help people understand if social is right for them, and if it’s right, help the tackle the strategies, tactics, platforms and simple hows that make it go round.

I normally have these types of conversations in person. In fact, that may be my preferred method, but I’m only one person and in-person isn’t always scalable. Blogging, tho not a substitute, can help. Which brings me to my problem. I love to write, but it takes me so effing long. I draft, edit, redraft, edit. proof, perfect till 30 minutes has turned into 3 hours and I still have typos or left something out. If that’s the process, blogging isn’t scalable either.

I want to write better. I want to write faster. I want to write better and faster. And the only way to do both is to practice.

So I’m going to try to write one post a day, in 30 minutes or less, every day for 30 days. I’ll write it here, on my skratchpad. I’ll transcribe my thoughts free-flow, and if I have time, edit until my 30 minutes are up. There will be rambling. There will be typos. And I will be OK with that, when it’s posted here.

My plan, then, is to revisit these posts later in day, and spend a second 30 minutes organizing and editing my ramblings into a more polished form for presentation on my primary blog, Ms. Herr when online, or perhaps even on The Terralever Blog.

This is practice. This is discipline. This is skill development in action.

And yes, I’m aware that skratchpad is misspelled. Purposely so. I’ve always been partial to this particular spelling. I think it’s more fun. And it definitely says something about my intentions for this blog.

end time: 10:40am