Blogging is a grind. A joy, but difficult to substain over a long peiod of time. Creating daily entries can often feel like a chore. No one is putting a gun to your head to write a blog entry, but some days it will feel like it.
The real pressure in blogging is creating daily entries over the course of months and years. This blogging lifestyle is what can be hard to maintain for most people. That is why you need to learn to live the blogging lifestyle and not force yourself into blogging. The only one holding a gun to your head is you.
A lot of bloggers jump in an set a pace that few people can manage over the course of time. A few days usually works out, but weeks and months later you will find yourself under so much stress you quit blogging completely. You need to set a posting rate which you can enjoy and maintain over the long haul. Other factors will play a role in your posting rate: regular job, family, kids, hobbies… All of these will play a part in determining how much you can post on a regular basis.
If you want to turn blogging into full time job, you will need to develope a lifestyle for blogging. Writing daily posts must become just a thing you do everyday, it isn’t stressful just another daily activity like taking a shower. If you want to be a blogger long term it is best to develope this lifestyle as early as you can. This rhythm of blogging will soon become a normal part of life.
One of the secrets to blogging is using WordPress’s post-dating. That is when you write a number of blog posts all at one time and have a time and date set on each post to appear hours or a day apart. That way when you write a series each post in the series will appear on the blog at a time you set. You can write the entire series in a day, and be free to work on other things or future blog posts in that time. I use it for most of my blogs and it means I have much more free time in a row now then I ever had before.
Once you get use to the blogging lifestyle and all the little tricks you will find yourself keeping the pace and developing a readership that will be checking your blog daily.
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