Posting Regularly
As you have seen, I’m way better than before in posting regularly on this blog. I’m still doing the same things, so there is not more to write about. However, I do follow a new system for posting. In the past I would post when I was inspired to do so. After a while inspiration dries up and you run into the ‘I have to write something…. ‘ problem and it will start to go downhill soon from there.
My new approach is to decouple inspiration, writing and posting. Instead of going from idea to post in say 30 minutes. I now just write down everything that could potentially be a blog post, without putting the burden of actually writing it on myself. So I just create a draft post with the title and whatever flows easily from the mind. Sometimes it is just the title, at other times it is almost a full post.Because I do not force myself to write the whole post, I’ve collected a lot of drafts that could grow into a post.
At other times I might not feel inspired at all, but I do feel like getting something done. This the time to finish posts. Maybe find some relevant links or creating an illustration. When done, I either schedule the post or let it rest for a bit until I feel like it is time to post again.
To make sure that I don’t forget about posting, I’ve also set up a repeating item in my Google calendar. With the drafts already there, it takes no effort at all to actually get something out there if I didn’t already.
Using this approach I have gone from a single idea to post action to a buffered approach that’s can cope much better with prolonged lack of inspiration or plain laziness. It does take a bit of discipline to not immediately post what has been written, but it does lead to a much more consistent post rate.
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