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🀫 The secret to my writing process

Chris Bongers on October 05, 2020

By far, the most received question from people is what the secret to my writing process is? How are you able to write every day? How do you come ...
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Liu Yongliang

Thanks Chris! Will be checking out Notion to organize my content ideas.

I like that you mentioned about having fun. Writing blog posts may not provide any monetary rewards, but I do feel a sense of pride and happiness in creating something that I am proud of, sometimes after 3-5 hours of writing, polishing and finally publishing them to the web.

Definitely it's not just blogging, we can also spend our time on many other creative processes that make us feel fulfilled. For one, I used to learn pencil drawing for pure interest and a simple drawing can take up days on end (1-2hrs per day). It always started with a little excitement, then came the dreadful process of enduring the thoughts of "this looks ugly" "This is not the way I want it to look" "That's far from completion", after which a little delight in seeing something coming together and finally the enormous WOW moment of "Did I really draw this? That looks unbelievably decent..to me! "

Today, I received the 16 week streak badge on DEV. 16 weeks of consistent writing, that's definitely a small win for me! Writing articles was my new year resolution for 2020 and for over half a year, I hesitated to begin. Now, I am proud to say that this is probably one of the best decisions I ever made this year and will always look back to this moment for inspiration and motivation.

Cheers!

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Chris Bongers

That's amazing!

I resonate with your comment, I have this in writing but also drawing or working out.
It's all things you have to have fun in, else it's not worth doing them.

People ask me how can I become a blogger and earn money, and I have no idea
I don't even make money with it, and it's not my intention.

I just love to do it, and it's my way of learning

as for drawing goes, I'm converting to iPad drawing but it's such a difference, so keep thinking, damn why doesn't it just look good haha.

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Aleksei Berezkin

English is not my native tongue

We got it πŸ˜† Thanks for your content!

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Chris Bongers

Haha thanks I guess πŸ˜‚

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Aleksei Berezkin

Funny: in my native language words β€œlanguage” and ”tongue” are also the same πŸ˜‰

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Chris Bongers

Oh really haha? What language is that?

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Aleksei Berezkin

Russian πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί

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Luis Locked In Suarez • Edited

Nice post Chris! The best articles come from personal experiences, so No. 2 on the list would be my favorite. And lastly No. 4 cause the whole idea of doing anything.

Thanks for sharing!

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Chris Bongers

Your welcome Luis, glad you like it
It's definitely about the experience, in the widest of the word.

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Bobby Iliev

Great content Chris! Well done πŸ±β€πŸ’»

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Chris Bongers

Thanks Bobby! Glad you like it.

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Chris Bongers

Thank you, will do πŸ˜‚