(Or alternatively – Blogging, and how to sustain the creative writing you love for your blog, despite feeling juiced out!)
I have titled this post Bloggity Blogging, even though I watched a You Tube video that taught me about algorithm, helpful content, and informational versus transactional content. This is from Adam Enfroy, and I really enjoyed it, learnt a lot. I’m saying, even though, only because it appears that a title with a ‘How to’ or some such phrase promising information gets picked up and spun around the search engines with greater alacricity. I prefer Bloggity Blogging. Still, here’s a shout out to folks who stick with sharing their expertise with determination and generosity. Here’s another, Damini Tripathi, short, succinct, for folks who would like a quick fix or an appreciation session. She presents her video in Hindi and I loved the ease of her style.
Meanwhile, about blogging, and about starting, stopping and sustaining your blog! If you’re feeling juiced out, permit yourself to rest. This is incredibly productive. Now read on. I have 3 blogging tips for you:-
- It’s a blog, not a thesis. Jot down your ideas in a handy notepad, digital or physical. These ideas can be fleshed out swiftly into short but useful blog posts. For longer and more complex blogging, the writer needs a different approach. We can talk about that.
- Use the rule of 3 for your post content. This means, whatever the theme, pick the 3 most useful ideas you have to offer your reader around that theme and write a sentence or 3 sentences for each of those ideas. Go. You’ve got this.
- Create a bank of posts and find your pace over time. This means, you decide how often you post, and whether or not your posts will go up randomly or to a regular schedule. Meanwhile, add to you post bank every time you feel called to do so. If you don’t feel called to do so, then this blogging business may be something you’d like to re-think, or outsource. That’s absolutely okay. The things you do with your life should be things that keep you comfortable and at ease. Of course, there are many people who feel comfortable and at ease only if they wake up to a challenge, push their way through it and feel a sense of reward having accomplished what they set out to do at the end of it. If this describes you, then stick with it.
Bloggity Blogging has a much nicer rhythm to it, a canter, a gallop, and this is a great way to end this article! I wish you a great Bloggity, so Blog speed!
