Explaining the sudden increace in awful posts.

I have a confession: I am procrastinating.

Not the cute kind of procrastinating where you cram the night before a big deadline, but the lots-of-excuses, i’ll-do-it-tommorrow, just-this-one-last-thing-then-i’ll-be-ready type of procrastination that makes just starting to work feel like climbing a mountain.

But what is it that I’m putting off?

I’m terrified of writing

Earlier this year, I commited to pursuing journalism as a career. It would not be contraversial to label this as “an interesting choice”; I have spent my life until now studying to become a physicist. It was going pretty well, until I figured out that I didn’t enjoy research nearly as much as I thought.

So, in Febuary I enrolled in a journalism course and switched to working part time, saying to myself that it’d give me more time to write and pursue my goals. This raises an obvious question: why is this site so empty?

It’s empty because I am putting off getting started. I’m putting it off because I am terrified of writing something bad, or, even worse, wrong. I really care about becoming a journalist, and I want to be good at it. The thing is, I’m way out of my depth and don’t know where to begin.

The 10 posts, 10 days challenge

This challenge is my attempt to get out of my head and break that thought pattern. It’s not complex and the title speaks for itself – 10 posts, 10 days.

In this challenge I will publish one article every single day starting from today until Friday next week (3-13 June 2025).These articles don’t have to be big or impressive, but they do have to exist. I hope that doing this will let me find some forward momentum that’ll keep me writing regularly.

The Rules

1. Every article has to be published before midnight, every night.
2. Each article will be started and finished on the same day; no working on one thing over multiple days.
3. Each article will be a genuine attempt at journalism where I’ll try to answer questions and report events, instead of giving my opinion.

So that’s it, this is 1 of 10; see you in number 2!