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Day 1–100 Days of Publishing Content Challenge
I’ve been struggling to publish content for a while now, and the only way to break out of this cycle is to create and publish consistently. Here’s how I plan to do it.
There was a period when I thought I was on the verge of breaking through as a content creator. I had gained a few paid subscribers to my newsletter, one of my blog posts was extremely popular, and this Medium blog was starting to gain traction. However, nothing significant came of it. I could list all the reasons why it didn’t work out, but honestly, it doesn’t matter.
For the past 20 months, I’ve been without a stable place to call home. Being kicked out nearly a month after those initial successes certainly didn’t help. It is also hard to create when you are dealing with extremely stressful circumstances — performing under pressure is one thing, but trying to not get kicked out of your apartment is a whole different level of stress. It is quite hard to produce when you don’t have enough to eat and you don’t have a roof under your head.
Despite this, I managed to get back into programming about five months ago and have been coding heavily since then. While it wasn’t full-time…