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Blogging While On Vacation

by Anne Wayman on August 7th, 2007

ideabulb.jpgSuccessful blogs, by and large, have multiple posts each and every day, or almost. Which is just fine until you need to go out of town for a business conference or simply want a vacation. Assuming your blog client allows it, the secret to real time off is to drip future posts. Here’s what I actually do:

  1. Open a word file and start listing ideas with no attention paid to spelling, grammar, just enough info so I’ll know what I intended. For blog writing the idea may just be a link I want to follow-up on.
  2. When I complete the post, I use Word’s format/font/strike through. This let’s me know I’ve written it, but I can still read the entry. Often I find I can write more than one entry on a single idea.
  3. Ask for guest posts from my audience to be sent to be via email. Post ‘em with a future date and let the contributor know when it will show up, with thanks.
  4. Schedule writing a future blog on my calendar daily until I get enough posts, then actually write the future posts.

I’m actually in the process of doing this now; I’ll be gone for about 8 days this month and so far I’ve got some 16 future posts already written.

Write well and often,
Anne Wayman, writing coach
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