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There were no longer any excuses. I accepted the one universal writing commandment: you must write every day.

About the time reality handed commandment down, a friend told me of a study showing nearly anyone could become an expert at nearly anything given 10,000 hours of devotion. This is roughly 10 years * 4 hours a day * 5 days a week. Basically 10,000 hours is a considerable amount of time. I haven’t put that volume of effort into anything, but rather than be overwhelmed I was invigorated. My meager skill at everything means that I can become great at anything in basically the same amount of time. I could easily pick any new skill to hone. I could be a pilot, a chemical engineer, an artist, an actor, or even a lighthouse operator. Trick is they don’t have handy or free software for any of those professions and I have already been wanting to be an author for a long time so why change directions now? I don’t have 10 by 4 by 5 hours available so I suspect I’ll be falling short of expert, landing closer to merely not average.

How the hell I got the idea to chronicle this effort for 1000 days is beyond me. It is no where near the prescribed hours, however it’s got heft.

Initially this wasn’t a blog. It was a text file. There’s no public accountability in a private file, nor is there auto time-stamping or fame. Though, these days if I haven’t gotten famous for my daily blogging in the first hundred or so days this endeavor has…endeavored I’m not about to become famous here on out.

Your comments are invited and welcome. Nag me about a missing day. Complain about my quality. Ask me why I gave up on some thread or another. Give me tips to be better. Be advised, I write what I want not what you want. I reserve the right to not appear to be learning anything new, doing anything productive, or applying any given advice.

I increment my progress here and here.