What I’ve Discovered After 26 Days of Writing on Medium

Helen Redfern
3 min readApr 25, 2022

I’m twenty-six days into my 30 articles in 30 days project so I thought I’d share how I’m getting on.

A coffee keeps me company whilst I write my Medium articles. Image by Helen Redfern.

There are six days left (including this one) in the month of April. My thirty days are from April 1st to April 30th.

I have ten articles left to write (this one, when finished, will take me to nine).

Originally, I was going to write every single day. But it was 10.30pm on Good Friday, after a day spent preparing food and the house for guests on Easter Saturday, when I realised I’d forgotten to write my article for the day. I was gutted.

Yes, I was going to write every day but, sometimes, life gets in the way. We have to be prepared for that. Otherwise we’re just set to fail.

Missing a few days here or there is not the end of the world. I still intend to write 30 articles in 30 days.

I set myself this challenge because I wanted to immerse myself into Medium. The platform intimidated and overwhelmed me. I figured the best way of getting over that was to fully throw myself into writing articles. To dive straight into the deep end. An all or nothing approach.

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Helen Redfern

Notebook addict, writer and mentor. Helping creatives struggling with confidence around their writing and creativity. helenredfernwriter.com