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1-Year Writing Challenge: Eleven Months in

A month of hardships and decisiveness

Mathias Barra
3 min readDec 2, 2019
Photo by Iga Palacz on Unsplash

November was probably the most difficult month I had to go through in my entire life so far. I lost my grandmother and went back for a week for her funeral, and I also broke up with my girlfriend before having a long second conversation with her just this past Saturday.

For the ones who read me regularly, you could easily see how much an impact this had on the topics I covered. I also believe it will, without fault, keep on having one for some time.

This being said, I succeeded in keeping on posting every single day on my blog.

So let’s dig a bit deeper into the positive and negative aspects of this month’s writing.

1. Positive Aspects

As said just above, I succeeded in sticking to my schedule despite what happened. Although I do feel my articles’ quality diminished during that time, it proved I can now stay consistent.

After all, if I was able to keep on writing during such a hard period, what could stop me now?

This month reminded time after time the importance of writing. It not only helps to go through difficult times but, even more importantly, it allows oneself to assimilate them, digest them instead of pushing the…

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Mathias Barra
Mathias Barra

Written by Mathias Barra

French polyglot speaking 6 languages. Writer. Helping you learn languages. Get my new ebook → https://linktr.ee/MathiasBarra

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