So we are here at Day 229. Two hundred and twenty nine days of doing this blog. Wow.
Okay, so in truth, it isn’t really a big wow to me, maybe because I’m in it and I know how I am, and when I commit to something, I follow through. This was a good project that fit for me, and it was the right time to take it on.
At the same time, I can appreciate that it is fairly uncommon to make a commitment like a 365 Day Blog, let alone follow it. For me, the moment I publicly committed to it, I knew I had to follow through. Fortunately, as I said, I think it really fit for me. It really has been a joy, an interesting challenge and a way of expressing myself.
Curiously enough, since working on this blog, I haven’t been doing a lot of composing music or songwriting (I have been writing up a storm at the cafe, but that’s more for personal reflections, not creative work). It seems that this blog has been satisfying a creative urge in me. After all, every single day I am creating something, and then I am expressing it by publishing it! Quel magnifique!
For me as a creative artist, I find that I am very sensitive about my creative happiness. And I am getting a lot of creative happiness from this project! It’s pretty astounding to me, because for so long, most of my creativity has gone into creating new music. However, as I have written before, there are many ways to be creative. Yet although I have been a writer my entire life, I don’t remember a time where writing played a continuous source–perhaps the primary source– of my creative satisfaction. Yet it has been working quite well.
There’s something about knowing that I have this post to do today, and then a post to do tomorrow, and then a post the next day, etc, for another 136 days or so. It has sort of filled up my “creative calendar,” so to speak. Although writing the post may only take 25 minutes, it nonetheless fulfills a creative side of me that wants to come out on a regular basis.
Who woulda thought that a daily blog could do so much to satisfy the creative urge?