30-DAY WRITING CHALLENGE

An Open Thank-You Note to Oren Cohen

A little more than 30 days ago, I joined the 30-Day Writing Challenge presented to Medium writers. This was a lot of fun and a little challenging.

Stephen Dalton
Top Dalton’s Blog
3 min readOct 22, 2021

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Grammarly Insight Writing Badge

If you think it’s easy to write every day, you’re right; it is until you have to answer a writing prompt and juggle your other writing tasks and client needs with those.

However, when you have thirty or so other challenge participants and a coach cheering you on, it does add a dollop of pressure.

I usually write every day, as evidenced by my Grammarly writing streak of 182 weeks and the 6,883,363 total words checked by Grammarly since 2 June 2016.

Grammarly Writing Streak — 182 weeks

  • You were more productive than 97% of Grammarly users — 40706 words written.
  • You were more accurate than 93% of Grammarly users.
  • You used more unique words than 98% of Grammarly users — 3,275 unique words used.

If you know how quirky Grammarly can get, 93% accuracy is admirable — especially considering one of the clients I write 20 blogs a month for insists that the Oxford comma is confusing and…

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Stephen Dalton
Top Dalton’s Blog

Stephen Dalton is a retired US Army First Sergeant with a degree in journalism from the University of Maryland. Top Writer in Investing, Business, & Bitcoin!