How doing the 100 Word challenge gave me the kick I needed

A bit of consistency goes a long way, and I got there by not caring if my writing was any good. Once I gained consistency, the quality followed.

I have been a performer for around 15 years, so when lockdown hit, suddenly I had a lot more time on my hands. Instead of performing on stage, I was now spending more time worrying about what TV shows to watch that night.

At first, I resolved not to worry about it. I still had a day job that was both secure, and safe to do during the Pandemic. I remember prior to this that I felt my aim was to earn enough money through performing to be able to give up the day job. Now I’m SO happy I never got to that point!

I also knew that I would not cope well with desperately trying to find a way of performing online straight away, and to just allow myself the downtime. The world had gone completely upside down, and we all deserved to give ourselves a break.

But I still had a niggle in my mind. Something telling me that there was more creative work that not only could I be doing, but that I wanted to do.

I had written to different degrees over the last few years. This included periods of writing articles for Huffington Post, my blog, and occasionally for print publications. Also, attempts at fiction, and comedy writing (I had managed to get a few jokes on Newsjack, the BBC open submission radio show).

I had attempted NaNoWriMo twice. That’s National Novel Writing Month, and the aim is to compete 50,000 words within the month of November. Attempted, as I never reached the target word count, and gave up.

Whilst there had been successes, the failures were enough to put me off taking up writing again. But as I say, there was that niggle…

Recently he offered subscribers the chance to take part in a challenge — The 100 word challenge.

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