Blogging Weekly to Stay Productive

 

What to talk about today? Honestly, I have nothing. So why am I here with a blog post if I have nothing? In trying to make goals for the year, I decided to be more active on here. I want to write and post more. Why? Because I enjoy doing this.

Sometime ago, I began a blog under a different name with a different focus. My goal was to post weekly. I’d read somewhere that when doing an author blog, that was a good pace to go at.

When I started that now neglected blog, that’s what I did. I sat down and wrote something, anything, once a week and posted it. To my surprise, I lasted longer at it than I thought I would. I think I had even picked a day to post. Maybe it was Monday or Wednesday? I don’t remember. I could check, but I can’t be bothered right now. It’s not really important.

What is important is I’d stuck to the weekly blogging for some time and I enjoyed the heck out of it. In fact, if I’d became busy during the week and it came time to post something, I’d drop everything and write something up in a frenzy just so I could get it out so I could stick to my weekly deadline.

Back to Weekly Blogging? Maybe

My first post on this blog was April 17, 2020. I realized last month that I’d only posted 56 times on this site total since then. When I started this blog, I had the intention of posting weekly, if not more. Obviously, that did not happen.

Sometimes it’s hard to think of something to say. Or I start a post and think, “Who the hell wants to read this mindless dribble?” Then scrap what I was working on and move along with my life.

As I looked at that number of 56 and how many years this blog has been live, I realized that if I’d blogged weekly, like I intended, that number would be significantly higher. Actually, 56 posts are a little over a year’s worth of posts if I had posted weekly. Yet it’d taken me four years to get that number.

More Productivity, Please

As I was looking at what I wanted to achieve this year, I thought, I really should try to get at least 52 blog posts up this year. If anything, it would be good practice for writing other things. As I’ve said before, writing a blog post often gets my creative juices flowing for working on my fiction.

Speaking of fiction, I wrote this post as I was taking a small break from editing my current story. The story is pretty much done, except for some tweaks to the ending and going over it again to make it look like a coherent adult may have written it. Can’t guarantee the latter, but I try.

The point is, I want to be way more productive this year. I want to write, and gosh darn it, that’s what I’m going to do. Even if I don’t have an idea for something. I will write anyway.

Huh? What?

Is that possible?

Yes, because that is exactly how this post came about. I looked at the calendar and thought, “Gee, if I’m going to post something weekly, I really need to write something.” So I opened up the ye old plain text editor and just started typing.

I, myself, need this reminder that writing begets writing. So idea or not, I better get to it. If you are a writer, remember that - writing begets writing. I often forget this minor fact.

So as of now, I plan on posting something at least weekly to this site and see how many posts I get in this year. Will I make it? I dunno. Guess you will have to keep coming back to see if I do or not.

Normally, I don’t like stating goals like this publicly. That way, if I fail, no one knows it but me. However, I really needed something to write about this week, so here I am.

I’m looking forward to a year of weekly blog posts. It will be interesting to see if I can maintain this output or not. Even more interesting are the things I might come up with to write about.

One last note. . . As I said above, I’m in the final stages of a new story. If all goes well, it should be out next week. Posting about a new release will count as my weekly post. 😃 Just saying.