Blogging In Your Schedule
As many of you are aware, school and college started in some parts of the US today and that means that its time for me to go back to school. Considering I’m at the university everyday from 8:30am to 4pm, I tried coming up with ways to stay in touch with my blog. I know that my schedule is not as constricted as some of yours and I wanted to share a few ways that I try to check up on my blog and write posts and I’d like to hear what your schedules look like as well.
1. Wake Up Early - I usually wake up 20 minutes before I actually need to wake up so that I can quickly check email and comments and respond. This helps me not seem like a slacker and means that individuals that are located in different time zones get replies within 2 hours. Waking up early means that I lose out on 20 minutes of sleep but it also means that I dont have to worry about coming home to an inbox full of emails from the night before.
2. Blog During The Day - I know that if you’re at work, it gets hard to blog until you return home however, since I go to university, I sometimes do get 30 minutes to an hours break in between classes and that means that I’m able to login to my Wordpress dashboard and partially write out my posts. I usually write them out in outline format and when I get back home I complete them. This allows me to not throw away good ideas that come to me during the day.
3. Weekend Blog Readup - What I’ve planned on doing is visit my favorite blogs during the weekend if I am unable to get to them through the week so that I can read up on them and write comments. So, if you haven’t seen me around just yet, dont worry. I’ll be there this weekend making my rounds as usual and leaving comments and suggestions.
4. Multi-Tasking - I dont know if this is true for you guys but I’m learning to multi-task. I have the feeling that most guys don’t know how to multi-task but most females do. I mean that in the best possible way, by the way! I’m learning to have to be able to read emails as I reply to them and be able to proofread my blog posts while checking comments and such. I’m a newbie at multi-tasking so its difficult but im catching up quickly.
Anyway, I’d really like to see how you guys balance out your schedule. I know that some of you go back to school and long days of classes while most of you are working the entire day. How does blogging fit into your schedule?
Well, I actually write two to three posts during the weekend, and then schedule them for publishing so as to avoid interruption of my “study time”.
If time permits (happens 75% of the time), I also write a couple of posts after I get back home from school - that’s around 17:30 and I finish at around 18:30 or 19:30, and then I do my school stuff.
I usually write down ideas during the weekend and post them during the week so it just depends. Its good that you have your schedule down though. It makes it more relaxed.
Very well said Nabil. I get up usually 40 minutes - 60 minutes earlier because I have a whole heck of lot to take care of. But I usually write my posts a day ahead. Sometimes 2 days ahead.
School still hasn’t started for me so this gives me a bit of time to get my act together. But I think that my schedule will be pretty much like yours, especially multitasking, I’m a pro at that!
Youre lucky school hasn’t started yet and I’m still practicing with my multi-tasking skills!
Writing posts ahead of time and scheduling them to auto-post is a great option. You can write all of your posts for the week on Sunday and schedule them to post each day. If something important comes up that you need to write about right away, you still can and end up having two posts for the day.
Thats true. I set up my posts daily to post at a certain time at night so that I have one post each day.
Great advice Enkay! I have to get up in the early morning, and handle most of the internet stuff then. I also catch up on blog reading on the weekends, as I usually have more time.
I do visit many blogs throughout the day, but catch up on the majority on the weekends.
I agree, getting up in the mornings is hard sometimes but I usually am able to do it better that way. Im finally starting to get settled into the schedule so thats good news.
I most of the times fight with the schedule as I not only work all day but I also prepare for certification exams after my work day. And as blogging is my hobby cum part time venture, only weekends can be of my help.
In case my posting schedule over weekends is messed up due to travel or some other reason, then you would see post drought at times.
So this is how you find the time to blog!! :p