Huge Win!

I'm immensely proud of myself right now and honestly? I deserve it!

So last month, I intended to write all of my content posts (34 between two websites) throughout each week. It was a convoluted system. The first week I would write 10 posts between two days, the second week 10 posts between two days, the third week 8 posts between two days and the fourth week 6 posts between two days.

The two writing days were scheduled to be Wednesdays and Fridays. I was also hoping to do more behind-the-scenes work on these days as well. Mondays and Thursdays were for editing my novel, Tuesdays were work-free as I am usually busy the whole day, and weekends were for catch-up or rest.

Turns out, that was the quickest route to nowhere.

I did finish all the posts, but I also had no time for behind-the-scenes work, and no energy for my novel. Whenever I fell behind on my schedule, it meant the rest of the week was spent playing catch up. I felt like all I did for January was write content.

So this month I decided to do something different. I still had 4 January posts to write, and then all 34 February posts. I decided I'd tackle them in the last week of January, writing every spare moment I had, and then use the first three weeks of February to do the behind-the-scenes and novel work before tackling my March posts in the last week of February.

Well, it took a little more than a week, but in about 8-9 days, I've written 38 articles and over 40,000 words! I just finished my last post a few minutes ago. I'm on the night shift at work and there's nothing else to do, so rather than watching netflix I pumped out almost 10,000 words between midnight and now (5 am).

I hope that this becomes a stable method of running my sites for the year. If it becomes unmanageable, I will look at lowering my 2020 article count. I'm aiming to have about 200 posts on each site by the end of the year. But I'd rather lower my count and prevent burnout, getting to my goal more slowly, than to overwork myself and end up giving up altogether.

Anyway. Just wanted to celebrate finally reaching my goal and having a few weeks now where I don't have to worry about producing content and can focus on finding ways to drive traffic to my site.

How do you manage content writing with "back office" work?