Don’t Focus On Writing Every Day. Focus On Your Purpose Instead

Allison Wonchoba
6 min readApr 2, 2024

Writing every day could even hurt you, not help.

Desk with an iMac to the right of the image with a large black-and-white calendar hanging overhead. Two chairs against the desk. On the desk next to the iMac is a potted plant.
Photo by Roman Bozhko on Unsplash

I write this after spending over a month away from Medium, and I survived. However, I do have some takeaways from the experience.

My goal was never to publish every day — I think that goes against my aspirations as a writer. With that said, because of how easy it is to publish on…

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Allison Wonchoba

Allison is a writer based out of Minneapolis. She lives with her two cats and is loving life.