Blogging Challenges: Are They Really Worth It?

I've read a few articles recently about the pros and cons of blogging challenges. I wanted to offer my thoughts. 

I’ve been blogging for a long time, on and off (Forking Mad has been going for 12 years).  Before that I wrote a Tech blog for almost ten years.  I love writing and I enjoy interacting with people and posts. 

However, sometimes life gets in the way, and you quickly fall from your blogging rhythm.  More recently that has been my problem, but I started again a few months ago and as part of my randomness I found a ‘blogging prompts’ post and liked the idea.  I decided to set my own challenge to do Fifty Posts in 50 days, just for my own personal experience.  

The prompts are fun, interesting, and do what it says on the tin – prompts me.  They make me give some focus-time each day to think of my writing. 

My writing for the prompts has always been genuine, and I think it allows me (and you) to explore different sides of me.