Blog Mastermind is fantastic! I’m up to speed on lessons, I’m writing content each day for a short period of time, and I market my posts at least 4 days a week for 20 minutes each day.
The discipline of writing daily and marketing daily is great. It reminds me that the journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step. Taking a step or two each day leads to completing at least one post per day, and sometimes more. I now hold multiple posts and publish them during the week and not all at once. This gives my blogs regular posts and keeps from overwhelming my subscribers.
I started writing down any ideas I have for future posts so I don’t forget them. They won’t all turn into articles, but many will. Having a list of post ideas to choose from for all my blogs allows me to focus on researching and writing articles instead of wonder what I’m going to write about. The list grows faster than I can produce content and that’s good. If I sit down to write and don’t have a specific idea, I can use one from the list. I may not finish an article in one sitting, but I can usually get it outlined and some content produced in 30 minutes to an hour. If I don’t finish, I’ll work on it the next day.
I feel like I’m back in my college writing groove. I took an honors class my freshman year that combined English Composition and Western Civilization. It was a very tough class because we had to produce a two-page, typed, double-spaced (Courier 12 pt) paper every week the whole semester. We used typewriters back then, but they were electric with backspace erase. We were graded on content, structure, and grammar.
At first, I was completely overwhelmed by the whole idea of writing so much with so little time to prepare. Papers were due every Monday morning. But once I got in the habit of thinking in terms of how I would compare, contrast and compose a paper every day as I read my assignments, it got easy to write a paper that often. That class taught me how to write by demanding that I write. It taught me to think critically as I read information.
Blog Mastermind is demanding this kind of writing and thinking discipline of me again, but now I get to choose the topics. It’s also a lot easier to write on a computer than by hand and with a typewriter. 
I enjoy writing so much. I hope I can turn an hour or two of daily writing with passion into a profession I love. If I could afford to do it, I’d write full-time. In the meantime, I’ll continue to pass my love of learning onto my tutoring students and helping them to not only master a subject, but learn to love learning as well. Those who love learning seem happier and more prosperous.
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