Blogging, and sticking to it Dec 17 2009

As some of you may have noticed - I’ve been blogging a lot more in the last few days. This is me attempting to start a New Years resolution early, and that’s to try and publish a new post everyday.

However, I always found writing a new post from scratch, checking it twice, proof reading it and publishing it all in one day very daunting. Two different things have helped me with this.

The first, is that while reading Gary Vaynerchuk’s book Crush It!, I took the tip he outlined and wrote down 50 blog post topics that I could think of straight off the bat to talk about. At first I thought 50 was a lot, but when I got going I realised there was a huge number of interesting things I could write about. In the end I wrote more than 50 topics down, and since then have been adding almost as many to the list as I have been crossing off. This means I always have a list of cool things to write about and put down in a post.

The second thing was that I’ve altered my workflow slightly. I used to sit down and try to write a post from start to finish and publish it. This too meant that it always seemed like a big task to try and write something up. However now, I try to simply write “half a post”, or rather, get my initial idea down in rough draft format, and then tidy it up, proof read it, and publish it the next day. Now this means that each day, I finish off one post by simply checking it over, making a few tweaks, and publishing it, and then put another idea down in draft format ready for the next day (if I have time, I might put a couple of drafts down).

Thanks to these two steps, it never seems like too much effort to get a post out each and every day. That, combined with how easy to use Tumblr is, means that I’m now back to writing content regularly, enjoying it, and hopefully some of you are finding it interesting too!

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