The Power of Scheduled Posting

byRaineyC

518 followers

10 years ago

While there are several good reasons to spend an entire block of time writing and scheduling multiple blog/website posts, I do so for one reason: my life is chaos and there is simply no other way for me to get any posting done.

One week ago Sunday, I was writing away, making wonderful progress. I'd accomplish a moment of absolutely wonderful prose followed by careful scheduling so the world could appreciate my genius at a later moment in time.

Just when I was really on a roll and the words were flowing like hot syrup, I got slammed. The phone rang. It was a hospital moment and we had to run. I hit the schedule button one last time then hit the door running.

It has now been 8 days since that moment. Eight days during which our lives revolved around the hospital. As the days progressed, the fatigue set in. Anyone who has done "hospital time" knows exactly what I am talking about.

When you get a chance to go home, you throw your clothes in the washer, sit down for a moment and it happens. You're out like a light. You wake up hours later and scrounge for something dry to wear back to the hospital. You go to work and pray you don't have to make any serious decisions because sleep deprivation has made thinking obsolete.

Today is the first day I've had a chance to catch my breath. The dishes are done. The laundry is going. (With any luck, I'll be awake when the washer finishes its cycle.)

I opened my planner so I could note where I've been for the past week. There, to my surprise, I found something already penned in on almost every day. Scribbled in the corner of each day's square is the title of the blog post scheduled to post that day.

Hallelujah! While I spent those days taking care of family, my blog was taking care of itself. Granted, I haven't been able to monitor comments or even sign in to the blog, but the blog is growing and the content is increasing.

Our hospital time will, fortunately, end in two days. Our loved one will be coming home. Life will return to it's previous kind of frantic. And I will again claim my space at the bar in the kitchen. I'll spread out my planner, my notepaper, open multiple windows on my laptop and start writing. I'll write (and schedule) as many posts as possible. You never know when life is going to T-bone the muse.