CornerScribe

Why and how to schedule your blog posts

You’re writing one or more blogs and keeping up with them pretty well. Why would you take the time to keep a blogging schedule?

Before we get started, let me know you what my blogging schedule looks like for the first few days of March.

3/1 NaNoEdMo kickoff post

3/2 Popular links from February

3/3 Synergy Magazine

3/4 Using email filters to manage your email and get more done

As you see, I don’t do anything terribly fancy, but I do this for each of my blogs to keep me on track. I’ve found that it has multiple benefits.

• When I have an idea, I add it to the “schedule” before I forget it. This also keeps most of my blogging ideas in one place
• Since I already have ideas in the works, I face writer’s block much less often
• If I have something time-sensitive, I put it on the schedule so I won’t forget it
• I can be sure that I’m covering each of my categories as well as I’d like to since I have a monthly overview of what I’m writing about
• I can build some anticipation for posts by mentioning that they’re upcoming
• My reading time also benefits my blogging more with this method. When I see a post that I’d like to reference or get an idea, I drop it onto the schedule
• To save even more time, I sometimes write the posts ahead of time and schedule them to post via wordpress
• I often add my fiction and other non-fiction to the schedule as well, giving me an easy way to view where my writing time is going

If you’re not already keeping some sort of writing/blogging schedule, then I challenge you to try it for a month. I’ve found that it really speeds up my writing time by allowing me to write instead of try to find something to write about. Let me know how it works out for you.