A consistent pace of writing can be a good thing. It can provide you with a sense of stable progress and make it possible to predict and plan your writing efforts. Your readers will also pick up on it and it will help them become regular readers – knowing when to expect new content from you. There are a few things you can do to achieve a consistent pace of writing.
Start with Less
Whatever pace you have in mind – start with less. For example if you choose to start with two articles a week, consider starting with just one a week or one every two weeks. You are heading into unknowns – you have numerous learning curves ahead and you need to give yourself space to handle it. Be soft and gentle with yourself.
If you start with a pace that is too much – you will pressure yourself to produce content. Pressure may become an obstacle – it may drain your motivation to write. Pressure may hinder your ability to meet your goals.
Alternatively, if you start with a slower pace you may experience ease and space. Both are productive & supportive of writing. You will have time and opportunity to try things out, see what you like best and write better.
Publish on Schedule
Choose a publishing schedule and stick to it. For example if you choose to publish once a week, be specific and choose the day and time you will publish your content. You are free to write whenever you want and use scheduled publishing to set when the post will be published.
Scheduled Publishing
When you publish a post – WordPress sets the current date and time as the publish time for your post. But this is only a default choice – you can choose to publish a post at any time – past, present or future. When posts are published in the future they become “scheduled”. They will be automatically published when their time comes. Here is a tutorial on how to do this.
Floods and Blocks
Sometimes you may find yourself flooded with content, other times you may feel empty and blocked. You can use the schedule publishing feature to balance them out.
When you are flooded by content, ride out the wave and generate all the posts that come to you but don’t publish them all at once. Instead use scheduled publishing to publish your posts according to your set publishing schedule.
Lets say your current publishing schedule is to publish a single post every week on Sunday evening. Let’s also say that you experience a flood of writing and author 4 posts. You can schedule each one to be published on 4 consecutive future Sundays. Doing that means you’ve completed your writing quota for an entire month.
When you have posts schedule for some time in the future you create a comfort zone in which you are free from any pressure to write. If you experience writer’s block, or if you want to take some time off – you are covered. Posts will continue to be published on your website automatically – keeping to your publishing schedule even when you aren’t writing.
Increasing Your Pace
Increase your pace of writing and publishing only when you feel you can do so without over-exerting yourself and compromising the comfort of your current pace. If you push yourself too hard you may end up with self-inflicted writer’s block which may disturb your regular publishing schedule.
One way to comfortably increase your pace is to create a comfort zone using scheduled publishing. A comfort zone is a future period of time in which your publishing schedule is already filled. For example, if you publish once a week and have 12 scheduled posts, then you have a comfort zone of 12 weeks. Even if you write nothing during this period – you will still be publishing on schedule. You can use this comfort zone to increase your pace of publishing.
If you do choose to increase your pace make sure to leave yourself a comfort zone. To continue our example, if you choose to increase your pace to 2 posts a week (and you have 12 scheduled posts published) then your comfort zone will shrink from 12 weeks to 6 weeks. Just make sure that your new comfort zone still feels comfortable. If it doesn’t, hold off on increasing your pace. Continue to publish on your current schedule, let your comfort zone grow some more and then increase your pace.
Writing from within your comfort zone will sustain you longer then writing under the pressure of a ticking clock. Sometimes, the write thing to do may be to decrease your publishing pace back to something that is more comfortable for you.
Pace Your Writing
A consistent pace of writing can be a good thing. It can provide you with a sense of stable progress and make it possible to predict and plan your writing efforts. Your readers will also pick up on it and it will help them become regular readers – knowing when to expect new content from you. There are a few things you can do to achieve a consistent pace of writing.
Start with Less
Whatever pace you have in mind – start with less. For example if you choose to start with two articles a week, consider starting with just one a week or one every two weeks. You are heading into unknowns – you have numerous learning curves ahead and you need to give yourself space to handle it. Be soft and gentle with yourself.
If you start with a pace that is too much – you will pressure yourself to produce content. Pressure may become an obstacle – it may drain your motivation to write. Pressure may hinder your ability to meet your goals.
Alternatively, if you start with a slower pace you may experience ease and space. Both are productive & supportive of writing. You will have time and opportunity to try things out, see what you like best and write better.
Publish on Schedule
Choose a publishing schedule and stick to it. For example if you choose to publish once a week, be specific and choose the day and time you will publish your content. You are free to write whenever you want and use scheduled publishing to set when the post will be published.
Scheduled Publishing
When you publish a post – WordPress sets the current date and time as the publish time for your post. But this is only a default choice – you can choose to publish a post at any time – past, present or future. When posts are published in the future they become “scheduled”. They will be automatically published when their time comes. Here is a tutorial on how to do this.
Floods and Blocks
Sometimes you may find yourself flooded with content, other times you may feel empty and blocked. You can use the schedule publishing feature to balance them out.
When you are flooded by content, ride out the wave and generate all the posts that come to you but don’t publish them all at once. Instead use scheduled publishing to publish your posts according to your set publishing schedule.
Lets say your current publishing schedule is to publish a single post every week on Sunday evening. Let’s also say that you experience a flood of writing and author 4 posts. You can schedule each one to be published on 4 consecutive future Sundays. Doing that means you’ve completed your writing quota for an entire month.
When you have posts schedule for some time in the future you create a comfort zone in which you are free from any pressure to write. If you experience writer’s block, or if you want to take some time off – you are covered. Posts will continue to be published on your website automatically – keeping to your publishing schedule even when you aren’t writing.
Increasing Your Pace
Increase your pace of writing and publishing only when you feel you can do so without over-exerting yourself and compromising the comfort of your current pace. If you push yourself too hard you may end up with self-inflicted writer’s block which may disturb your regular publishing schedule.
One way to comfortably increase your pace is to create a comfort zone using scheduled publishing. A comfort zone is a future period of time in which your publishing schedule is already filled. For example, if you publish once a week and have 12 scheduled posts, then you have a comfort zone of 12 weeks. Even if you write nothing during this period – you will still be publishing on schedule. You can use this comfort zone to increase your pace of publishing.
If you do choose to increase your pace make sure to leave yourself a comfort zone. To continue our example, if you choose to increase your pace to 2 posts a week (and you have 12 scheduled posts published) then your comfort zone will shrink from 12 weeks to 6 weeks. Just make sure that your new comfort zone still feels comfortable. If it doesn’t, hold off on increasing your pace. Continue to publish on your current schedule, let your comfort zone grow some more and then increase your pace.
Writing from within your comfort zone will sustain you longer then writing under the pressure of a ticking clock. Sometimes, the write thing to do may be to decrease your publishing pace back to something that is more comfortable for you.