Writing And Reading Challenge

It’s been almost 23 days since I’ve started doing the 30 Day Challenge. While thinking that it would be easy to read news every day, I realized that writing a 500 blog every two days is not that easy. While writing my blogs I always try to find interesting topics to write about. I try to choose the most interesting news, so that I can have more things to write about.

This challenge has become also a writing challenge for me. I am happy about writing 500 words every two days even though it gets more challenging for every blog post to find a topic to write about. Writing a blog is different than writing an essay. In an essay, it is easier to find a topic to write about, since it might be easier to find ideas. In blog posts, I have to include more of my personal opinions, since these blog posts should reflect some of my personal opinions. Blog posts are normally informal writings that reflect people’s opinions about a specific topic. That’s why writing blogs about the same topic is challenging. To prevent myself from writing about the same topic every blog, I try to read news from different areas. These blog posts aren’t just about the news I read. They are also about how my life has changed with this challenge. To write about the changes in my life because of this challenge is difficult, since my challenge is not about a major change in my life. Some people’s challenges include cooking every day, or working out every day which can affect their everyday lifestyles. Even though this challenge doesn’t affect my everyday life that much, it affects how I think. These news had helped me to have more knowledge about the world, and understand people easier. I have learned about how a major earthquake affected thousands of people, how the prince and the princess of England just had a baby girl, and also how people just found about some dinosaur eggs in China. These news even changed the conversations I have with people. I can now talk a little bit about politics, or recent scientific discoveries that happened in the world. 

Like I’ve said before, it is also a writing challenge. I would never imagine writing 500 words three times every week. Now, this task had become so much easier than it was in the beginning of the year. For example, in the beginning of this challenge I was really scared about writing that many words in a week. Even 300 words would scare me. However, now 500 words has become like writing 300 words. I can easily write long paragraphs, and find ideas to write about quicker than I could do in the beginning of the challenge. 

No matter how difficult this challenge gets sometimes, I am determined to keep writing blogs, and keep reading news every day. I believe that I will keep doing this challenge even when it ends. At least I will try to read news every day, because I realized that it is a good activity for me.