How I plan out my future posts

Blogging daily is tough. I just passed six months and I’m going strong, but it’ll end at some point. For now, though, here is how I make it happen.

Lots of ideas

The biggest challenge for me is coming up with ideas. Following the idea of “ long periods of thinking, short periods of writing “, actually creating each post only takes me around 15–20 minutes — it’s the work to get to that point that takes more time.

I have two older posts that talk about finding ideas, and these are still my best sources:

Whatever you do, though, be sure to capture every idea you have. I put mine under a #blogideas tag in Roam Research, but you can store yours anywhere. They key is to get them out of your head and saved somewhere so you don’t forget about them.

I’ll take those short #blogideas in Roam and add other small notes or links as they come up, but most of the work happens directly in the WordPress editor as I start building out the post.

Batches of time

The key to my recent streak is really the concept of batching. I write a handful of posts in one sitting, and then drip them out over the subsequent days.

This is partially only possible because of the types of posts that I write. If I was covering breaking…