How I write my blog posts

1. Well first, something has to spark the idea, whether it’s a conversation, something that has been weighing on my mind for years, days, weeks, whatever amount of time, or a connection to something that was already on my blog post idea list (these are only some things that can spark the blog post, there are many other ways).

2. It’s not really crazy at all. I just write. The words just flow. I think as I write. I write what I think. Both.

3. Sometimes I go back and edit. I reread what I wrote, and oftentimes catch silly mistakes, such as “I meant this word, but for some reason I wrote this word.” Typos rarely happen, because I know how to spell everything. Rarely is there a word I have to think about or am not 100% confident on how to spell. At least typos in the spelling-sense. There are other types of typos, like missing a word. I forgot what they’re called.

4. I try to reference blog posts that are related in said blog post. However, ever since I got and started writing on my iPad, for some reason, this has proven much more difficult, and it doesn’t let me. It doesn’t even let me do other formatting, like underlining and bolding words (bolding, especially, would come in handy).

5. I try to write blog posts in “bunches” sometimes, this is something that has evolved. If there are lot of blog posts on seemingly “one topic” and they make sense together, not spread apart, then I try to mass-write those, and publish them together, all at the same time. Part of me likes this method, because it’s organized. But I also want to keep things as “honest” and efficient as possible, and real-time too.

   1. So, most of the time, when I write things, I immediately publish them.

   2. Sometimes, especially if a blog post is harder to write or think about, or I seem to need more time/ideas for it, that blog post will sit in my drafts (for possibly a while).

6. Drafts: I usually have at least about 13 of them at one time. Oftentimes a lot of them sit while I write my new ideas. Sometimes I don’t publish because it just doesn’t feel right, or I don’t know if it “fits” my other blog posts, my blog in general (I have 260 of them though…) or maybe it’s just not “blog worthy”?

   1. I don’t particularly struggle with this a lot, though, and usually if I have an idea, I want to write about it, and I do write it, I will end up publishing it. It is my blog after all, so it’s more shameless.