A Blogging Tip -Pre-Schedule Posts How many Weeks In advance?

Blogging is not easy at all, followers don’t just happen, topics don’t just appear in your head and life happens meaning the blog suffers.

I have tired an editorial /scheduled calendar many times. I have tried to schedule my post a week in advance many times. I have failed and succeeded.

I had an internal battle, that I didn’t want to schedule blog posts more than a week in advance, because then they won’t be current, or hot off the press.

But, then I booked our first holiday since 2012,  8 days to a warm beach, where I wanted to relax and meditate, and I didn’t want my blog to suffer

So, I gave it ago.

The peace and the space I gained by all this prescheduling meant,  I could

1. focus on comments,
2. reading other bloggers blogs,
3. having a holiday and intensifying my meditation with my meditation challenge.
4. Draft blogs and edit them properly.  Rather than last min.dot.com
5. Space for any unexpected things in life.
6. Blogging became enjoyable again
7. I started to operate the way I do in the rest of my life, planned and organised for my blog
8. I started to think of topics in advance ( which is a super hard thing for me to do with blogging).
9. Blogging became tension free.
10. I could blog without it impacting the rest of my life and my commitments at home, work, charity etc.  Because, my chores were slipping, exercise was slipping and tension was increasing.
11. I could try and do my own images and reduce reliance on http://www.freeimages.com (still have a lot to do here).

Prescheduling blogs so far in advance wasn’t something I was keen on doing.

When I scheduled just a week in advance. It still felt  quite tough for me to fit in with my job, volunteer activities, home life etc I still felt a stress.

When I tried to be 2 weeks in advance it really helped.   But, I still felt stressed, there was not enough space that allowed me to fit in my life.

But, when I was scheduling  3 weeks in advance, that is when I felt the greatest peace,  and space.  Otherwise, my time was very stretched and Blogging really was getting to the  point of  I want to Quit.  Now, those of you who have been with me since I started,  know that I have been wanting to quit since day one.  Those of you who are new, don’t be fooled – blogging is not easy!

I am no expert blogger, I still mess up. 

Anyway,  what I really wanted to share with this rambling post, was my editorial calendar. At the time of this post in 2018 I was following this blogging schedule. *this is not be my current blogging schedule!

My Editorial Calendar:–

Find Your own Rythm

As a blogger,  I think you need to find your own rythm.  The mistake I made was, that I researched  far too much on how to blog.  May bloggers saying, write your post x days before, edit x days before, then publish.   Now, all of that is what you do anyways.  The problem with me was, I was trying to fit a schedule of another blogger, into my life style and frankly that won’t work, especially if you are not a full time blogger!

After several tries and retries I found something that works, it gives me the visual I need, and provides me the deadlines and statues I need to make it work, or to feel ooops I have lost it again.  It works for my work style, it is not perfect but it is fine and I am feeling the rewards of it.

Parting thought

That is all I wanted to share in this rambling long post.  Just my honest experience and clip of my spreadsheet that I print out and scribble over. The difference is life changing.  It gives me peace and joy.  Now, I can enjoy blogging and not have it come in between the rest of life.  Now it has a place in my daily routine and is visual.

I hope you enjoyed my non expert blogging editorial calendar post and it might inspire you to try.  The other blog post i have linked are definitely worth a read as the writers of those post are experts.   I just wanted to share my raw blogging ways that currently work and I am sure will get refined.

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© 2018 thoughtsnlifeblog.com. Edited 4th Jan 2020

images :  Mainly mine,  and some from http://www.freeimages.com