I am posting continuously.

It seems I have been writing on NOTE every day for 823 days.

I say 'it seems' because I didn't count them myself; even if I write every day, counting them is out of the question.

I'm the type who wouldn't do such a troublesome thing.

At first, I knew almost nothing about NOTE or social media; I thought things like Twitter and Facebook were for keeping in touch with classmates and acquaintances.

I wanted to write something and have someone read it, but when I wrote on a blog, I got a lot of strange notifications, so I wondered if I should just stop.

'Mom, do you want to write? Is anywhere okay?' my third daughter asked. Since blogs were a no-go, it's not like 'anywhere' is okay, though.

'Blogs didn't work out, but I guess anywhere is fine, maybe.' That was a somewhat dismissive reply.

'If that's the case, NOTE is good. Do you know Nami Kishida? She went viral.' What's that??? Is it delicious???

I don't know the word 'viral,' and I don't know Nami Kishida. For starters, I don't really understand Twitter either.

'I don't know her, but does everyone know her??? Is it bad if I don't know her???' We don't have a TV or radio in our house.

'No TV, no radio, not even peeking at social media.

No piano, no time, and the cat is spinning around every day.'

Living days like that, even if my third daughter is a Twitter expert, I don't know anything at all.

'This one, this one, she's a person who writes interesting text.' She introduced me to Nami Kishida's NOTE.

'This person went viral on NOTE??' I don't know, but I assume that's what she means, so I ask.

'She went viral on Twitter, but she writes on NOTE.' What is that???

I'm in a state of 'What is viral???????????????????'

It's a story about buying a bra, but how fun it is; this means I can write about anything.

What should I do?

Thinking that, I didn't write right away, because, you know, there are so many people in the world who are good at writing, and I wondered if anyone would even read my writing.

"Anyway, why don't you just try writing?" my third daughter suggested.

At that time, I was working as a temp, and I only had time to write before or after work. Would people even enjoy that? Would it be okay? Anxiety clouded my mind.

"Billie Eilish apparently uploaded songs every day. She says it's important to upload them because even songs you don't think are good yourself might be appreciated by others," my second daughter told me.

"Billie Eilish, huh." When I heard that name, I thought, well, sure, but that's only if you have talent like Billie Eilish.

Words I couldn't say aloud flowed through my thoughts; I couldn't say it, but that's how it is.

"Billie Eilish didn't go to school; she studied and made music at home and uploaded it, so she was unknown at first. Everyone is unknown at the beginning," she said. Is that so? I didn't know that.

"Then I'll try writing." At that time, I wasn't thinking about writing every day. I mean, what would I even write about???

Every day, I was thinking about it in terms of doing it every single day.

When I go to work and come back, I'm often too busy to write. So, why not wake up in the morning and write?

Even thinking that, waking up about 30 minutes early didn't make it easy to write. I felt desperate about my lack of ability.

At that time, I don't remember where I read it (maybe it was while browsing at a bookstore), but I read a foreign author answering a question.

The question was, "How can I become able to write good sentences like you?"

I wanted to know that too, so I read the answer intently.

"Write for 15 minutes every day. Whether it's long or short, if you write every day, you will get better."

Is that really true? I thought, I can't quite believe that, but as I traced the words, there was a follow-up question.

"Is it really enough to just write for 15 minutes?" Exactly, that's what I thought too. It's only natural to think there must be something more to it.

"If you write for 15 minutes every day, there are things you will come to understand yourself. You should try doing that. If you want to make it better, you can think about that afterwards." It wasn't exact, but that was the gist of the answer.

I see, 15 minutes is enough. I'll do it, I thought, and started, but at first, I couldn't even write a sentence in 15 minutes.

Nothing would come to mind for the beginning or the end, and furthermore, I had no topics. Every day, my head would just spin.

What you can write in 15 minutes is only a tiny bit. I thought I could write during my lunch break at work, but in that time, I could only manage about two lines.

The next thing I thought of was to decide to write 1,000 characters every day, no matter what it was, whether it be a novel or a short piece.

I couldn't do it in 15 minutes, but I became able to write it in about an hour.

And that brings us to the present; now I have decided to write 2,000 characters every day in an essay or novel, or if possible, 1,000 characters for a novel, though it is okay if I cannot reach 2,000 characters.

Since then, my 2,000-character challenge has continued, and I am also keeping up my streak of daily posts.

I intend to write as much as I can without thinking about how long it will last.

Because this is the only place where I can express myself.