Daily blogging doesn't improve my writing anymore

A post is a writing workout. But instead of training to carry heavier weights or do some fancy movements, writing a post is a training to turn an idea into something that, when expressed, conveys said idea. To become better at writing you need to write. But practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. So what is the perfect writing practice?

The concept of any practice doesn't make sense without a way to measure one's progress. And just like with strength training, evaluating single posts (or workouts, for that matter) isn't the right approach. When you are training towards a larger strength goal, you won't feel much progress from workout to workout. Building muscle takes time. And in this time, some workouts will be worse than others. But your training plan isn't bad just because you didn't sleep well before some workouts. To rate your progress, the larger context is important. A single workout is irrelevant.

If you want to learn to do 100 push-ups, you will start with one. If you have trained for some time, you will reach a point where 10 push-ups are no longer a workout, but just a nice warmup. I think I reached this point with my daily blog. I started it because I had trouble finishing posts. Almost thirty posts later, this is no longer the bottleneck. I will still continue posting daily, because I committed to do it for 100 days. But in order to improve my writing, it is no longer enough.