Does Writing Every Day Help Your Content Grow?

My experience with posting an article every day for a month.

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If you’ve been following me for the last two months, then you know that I posted an article every day of December. I wanted to stretch the limits of my creative mind and put my writing skills to the test. I was also interested to see if all the advice is true.

Most successful writers say you need to post multiple times per day on Medium to find success. While that is just not realistic if you have a full-time job like me, I was interested to see if this was true. Would posting a new article every day grow my audience? Would it increase my engagement and my earnings?

Let’s find out.

The Struggle

Let me start by saying that writing every day was indeed challenging. I always want to write about topics that bring my audience value. While most of my ideas come from my everyday life, sometimes you have days where you aren’t inspired. Especially when you’re living at home with your parents for the holidays.

When it is winter in the North East, you don’t feel like going outside and doing very much. This equates to a lack of inspiration. I often found myself digging for possible good ideas that I could write about. Sometimes, the ideas weren’t the best but I needed to post…