The Results of Posting on note for 30 Consecutive Weeks
This article marks my 30th consecutive week of posting.
Since it feels like a good milestone, I've decided to record how things have been going.
Here are the points where I feel I've changed.
1. My main content for note has been decided
2. My writing speed has improved, and the volume of my writing has increased
3. My writing style has become more refined
I will go through them one by one.
1. My main content for note has been decided
When I first started note, I was gung-ho, thinking, "It's my own space, so I'll just post whatever I want!" but it's surprisingly difficult to share things about yourself. Moreover, since I'm just an ordinary individual, almost no one cares, and I ended up losing track of who I was even writing for.
Even now, I'm not necessarily working with a specific person in mind (setting a persona) who is reading this note, but I think it's a big step forward that I can now write for "people who are reading books," "people who have read the same book," and "people who are curious about the contents of that book."
There are various things I'd like to try, but I'd like to tackle them little by little as the number of fans for someone named "Domesu" grows while I continue with note.
2. My writing speed has improved, and the volume of my writing has increased
It might be limited, but I feel like I've become much faster at writing about 1,000 characters compared to before I started note. I try to leave something behind at a pace of once a week, and even with just that, my writing speed has steadily increased. I think my first article took about an hour? But now I can finish writing in about 30 minutes. (This article took about that long, too.)
At the beginning of my posting journey, I was thinking of posting about 500 characters, but as I wrote, the volume of text kept increasing, and now I aim to write between 800 and 1,000 characters. Of course, this excludes my three-line diary.
It really is very fun once you get into the flow of typing.
Writing was something I only really did when I had to submit a report after messing up at work, so I deeply feel the importance of doing it positively and continuously.
3. My writing style has changed
At first, I thought I would go for a casual, friendly writing style, but it was just too hard to write that way. Partly due to the influence of reading, I've become accustomed to more formal writing, and I realized that a slightly formal style is just right for me.It also looks more intellectual, which is nice.
In a book by Takashi Saito that I read recently, it was mentioned that "the amount you read shows in your writing style," so every time I feel my vocabulary becoming richer, I deeply feel that I am engaging in self-improvement through reading.
Read, then output—I want to keep this up.
*Here is my first, rather poor, book record.https://note.com/domedomesun/n/n2c5c325fedb5
In Conclusion
I've listed the things that have changed significantly for me personally. I had underestimated it, thinking it was just one update a week, but I was honestly surprised to find that my writing style had changed so much.
It really is important to continue and make it your own strength. I can't write like a professional creator, but I intend to continue sharing my thoughts and reflections on the things I experience.