Writing

September Writing Challenge

A total fail…and not at all a failure!

Sarah Minnis
3 min readOct 5, 2022

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Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash

This September I wanted to set myself a little goal and that was to write a short story every day of the month.

THE RESULTS

In September I wrote:

  • 13 stories in total
  • 5 over 4 min reads
  • 8 short stories

So…I started off well!

The last 2 weeks of September I hadn’t done much writing at all as I’d been ill and worked a lot more hours at the day job!

Some days I’m so tired I just can’t face sitting and writing anything at all…it’s all about being in the right state of mind sometimes!

But those are excuses.

I picked short stories as they are (usually) quite quick to write and don’t always require a lot of research. A lot of the times, the shorter posts are almost like short bursts of streams of consciousness, where you state an idea, say a few things about it and then BAM! Post is done!

Like a ham sandwich without the meat!

I knew there was a chance I’d fail at this challenge simply because of my shift patterns. It’s difficult to find the time around work. Yes, I could get up at 5am to write…

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Sarah Minnis

I write about side hustles, productivity and creativity whilst trying to live an eco-friendly and happy life. I love learning new crafts, words and skills!