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How writing 700 articles changed my life

Chris Bongers on February 25, 2022

It's been a while since I've done one of these celebration posts. The last one was when I wrote 500 tech articles, and that was back in August. I ...
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GrahamTheDev

I still don't think, despite hearing it, people realise how incredible 700 posts in 709ish days actually is!

I literally called you a unicorn in my article yesterday 🤣

Incredible commitment and I am looking forward to 13 December 2022! If I got it right that should be a major celebration day of 1k articles, a feat few achieve in a lifetime never mind in less than 3 years.

Out of idle curiosity (it is a vanity metric), have you passed (or how close are you) to 1 million words? I just think that sounds kind of cool, "author of over a million words" as a tagline / bio!

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Chris Bongers

Oh damn, I should actually write a script to count my words, never done it!
Possibly very close to that.

And indeed 1K articles is just next level crazy when you think about it!
Thanks for your support Graham 🙌

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Amrin

Haha "author of million word" i love it. I've read your article this morning it was awesome :)

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GrahamTheDev

Thanks so much Amrin!

And yeah, the author of a million words is something that just has that "ok, that is impressive" feel to it (even if word count is a useless metric! 🤣)

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E.R. Nurwijayadi

I must admit I left behind.

This is what I have got in my blog.
epsi-rns.gitlab.io

Hugo: Numerator

And this is my other blog as well.
epsi-rns.github.io

Jekyll: Numerator

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Chris Bongers

Wow that is massive as well!
Well done 👏

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E.R. Nurwijayadi

Thank youuuuu...

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Pavan Belagatti

Sounds crazy but amazing results. I also share things daily on LinkedIn from last 3 years and man the results are just mind blowing. I got so many opportunities and awards just by writing stuff daily. I have 25k followers now on LinkedIn and in a day I received 8k subscribers to my newsletter I created. Yes, you are right when you say how writing changes our lives:)

Thanks for sharing.

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Chris Bongers

Wow that's very impressive well done Pavan! 💖

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Bharati Subramanian

This is super inspiring!
I have subscribed to your articles and your articles on React and JavaScript have helped me numerous times!!

I liked how you spoke about numbers and that you not to fall into the trap of metrics. I used to be stuck in this endless loop, and lately I have realized that huge number of views or not, it matters that I'm writing articles first for myself and then to help with people in the community who might benefit from it!

Keep rocking!
Thank you. Looking forward to reading more articles from you!

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Chris Bongers

Yeah I think once you focus on writing for yourself or at least for progressing yourself the metrics really don't matter.

Thank you Bharati! 🙌

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Atharva Shirdhankar

Amazing and Congrats Chris 🎉.
You are inspiration for me💯.

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Chris Bongers

Thank you so much!
You are actually a open source inspiration to me!

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Atharva Shirdhankar

Thanks Chris🙂
But for me inspiration and motivation for contributing to Open Source projects came from Eddie.
And Technical Writing inspiration from you😄

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leob

Impressive, posting EVERY friggin' day, it really sounds intimidating ... I salute you, I'd never even contemplate it myself, absolutely lacking the discipline for that!

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Chris Bongers

It's actually some kind of relaxing to do now, and nerve wrecking to not do it (if this makes any sense)

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leob

Yes it does, I get it ... once you're in that state of mind then it becomes compulsory, "must do" (but in a good way).

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Chris Bongers

100% lovely feeling to have 💖

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Mike Talbot ⭐

A stunning achievement, doubly so when you see the quality of the content. Well done.

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Chris Bongers

Thank you Mike!
Glad the quality does not dissapoint

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Sahan

Huge congrats! 700 posts is indeed an amazing milestone. Fascinating journey! 👏

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Chris Bongers

Thanks Sahan!
It's been quite a challenge, let's see till how far I can get

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David Dal Busco

700, you are crazy Chris 🤪! Congratulations for the achievement and your followings growing quite impressively.

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Chris Bongers

It feels like i'm crazy sometimes

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Michael Hoffmann

Congratulations Chris 🎉

People who invest that much time to create good content deserve a lot of followers and success in general.

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Chris Bongers

Thank you Michael!
Appreciate these kind words

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Pandita

Congrats Chris! I admire your consistency in posting everyday, I'm really glad it's brought you so much sucess and happiness! I wish more for you! 😀

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Chris Bongers

Thanks so much, really enjoy writing these short form articles 💖

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Amrin

congrats Chris. you are just incredible :D

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Chris Bongers

Thanks Amrin 🙌

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Rob OLeary

Nice to hear the effort paid off.

Do you think it would have gone differently if you wrote 350 medium length articles instead?

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Chris Bongers

Hmm it probably would have yes.
And even more if it was only 200 but very specific on one niche.

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Andrew Baisden

Serious hustling 🔥

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southxzx

Great sharing!!!

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Chris Bongers

Thanks! 🙌

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Waylon Walker

It all sounds Bongers!

You are an inspiration to us all Chris!

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Chris Bongers

Haha exactly my point Waylon! 😂
Thanks man 💖

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Alex Lohr

Congratulations and thank you for sharing and contributing to this community.

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Chris Bongers

Thank you so much Alex!
And of course for always adding extra learnings to my articles

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Geneviève Masioni

Just joined Dev.to thanks to your articles. Strating with one article every Monday to build a habit. You're a true inspiration regarding commitment.

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Chris Bongers

Wow, super happy to hear this!
Keep it up 💖

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Brett Cooper

Congratulations dude. I'm also trying to learn more from your articles.

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Chris Bongers

Awesome Brett, glad to hear this 💖

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Rolf Streefkerk

come on, just apply some common decency when you're cross posting.
Spamming your articles is not the way to go