Blog Day Planner

The daffodils are in bloom so that has got to be a sure sign that spring is finally enduring. Yeah! I’m so relieved to be finished with all those blizzards and hail storms but I’m not sure if the high winds are finished for this season. I know the rain has just begun, and in some parts of the country, that is a good thing because certain states really need the water levels to rise.

Either way, I’m ready to start this week off running like the title of this post says. There is a lot of catch up on my to do list. So swing the flags and signal the take off, here I go. Are you ready to play catch up on all those belated spring tasks that you put off?

My goal for this week first and foremost is to achieve the number of posts per blog for all my major blogs, domain blogs and Entrecard listed blogs. That is a total of 12 blogs so let’s do the run down on totals then I can zero in on the particulars.

The main blogs are Mountain Spirit Productions, The Midnight Writer, Blog Day Planner, The Midnight Writers Journal, The Midnight Writer’s Freelance Quest, The Midnight Writers Cafe, The Midnight Writers Secret Portal, Keep It Simple, The Making of a Walking, One Tin Soldier, and Midnight Revelry. Now that’s quite a line up.

Do you have more than one blog? Are you ready to set weekly goals for number of posts to write per week?

This is the first step in organizing your work week if you are a freelance writer to help set the intention and focus for your work week. It is so easy to let it get away from you, I know. There are more tasks than planning and writing involved in the freelance blogging business, as you probably know. I am involved in social networking, ghost blogging, writing on client’s blogs and writing content so I have more than my blogs to schedule in to the day planner. However, this area is the crux of my personal network so I need to build it.

Are you a blogger for fun or profit? Do you maintain more than one blog? Would you share some of your ideas on blog management and advertising and how you come up with ideas for your posts? I would love to have some guest writers on here to share with my readers. If you are interested, just email themidnightwriter1@gmail.com

and I’ll send you an invitation.

In the interest of sticking to my motto “Keep It Simple”, I’ll finish by listing the weekly line up for posts. At the end of the week, I’ll do my best to come back and review how you and I did. You will have to send me your comments in order to participate in this one.

Mountain Spirit Productions- it’s the domain blog and host for all of our network for the Midnight Writer- goal is 5 posts this week. I’m basing the 5 posts on a Monday through Friday schedule.

The Midnight Writer org – a main domain blog. Goal 5 posts.

Blog Day Planner – the second main domain blog. Goal 5.

The Midnight Writer’s Journal – this one is way behind. 5 posts with two reviews on the Midnight Special Spotlight.

The Midnight Writer’s Freelance Quest- 5 posts

The Midnight Writer’s Cafe - my Smorty blog- aiming for page rank and pages cached – 7 posts

Keep It Simple – 3 posts with follow up on previous posts.

Midnight Revelry- 3 posts and a review on Blog Day Planner. Buy the domain this week by Friday.

The Midnight Writer’s Secret Portal – 3 posts with a review on Blog Day Planner.

The Midnight Writers Blogs- 10 posts to update reviews and progress reports on all blogs and to publish news on our network and social networking. Two posts about affiliate marketing and a sponsor.

One Tin Soldier – 5 posts with rainbow gathering updates and follow up on some of our story lines.

If you are following any of these blogs on Entrecard, you will be able to track the progress because you’ll notice the new posts every day when you click on the widget. That should make you smile. I know I click on blogs hoping to see something new.

This brings the total to 59 posts and that is a lot of work.

Springtime is getting closer and closer. I can feel it in my bones. I can smell the fresh scent creeping into the air. Ahhhh!!! It's almost here. Soon the blossoms will be everywhere scenting the air with their perfume.

It is so tempting at this time of year for me to close up the laptop, put on my walking boots and go exploring on some mountain trails or to walk down by a river. I can feel myself wanting to just take in nature and admire the scenery. My writing chores feel like they are calling me to work outside. I believe it's good advice.

Springtime brings thoughts of spring cleaning, renewal, clearing extra baggage to make room for the new experiences that it promises to bring. Talking about spring cleaning and fresh air reminds me that it is time to make those spring time clean up plans, in business, at home, in your life and for your blogs. So follow me as I perform my spring cleaning.

What is the first step in a spring cleaning plan?

• Review your work load and your blogs. In my case, that involves about fifty different sites and dozens of projects.
• As you go through your blog(s) or website(s) or project(s), make a list of your observations.
• Write down every unfinished project that you find. Make a decision this spring whether you still want to complete the project or if you want to strike it from your planning sheet. Voila! Spring cleaning begins at this point. Your load is already getting lighter.
• While reviewing your blogs, or website or articles take notice if there are any misspelled words or sentences that need rewriting. Look for incomplete thoughts.
• If you have ideas for follow up posts based on what your blog content already contains, then begin a list and start planning those posts. A good way that I have found is to write an outline in a word document. Save this in a file. Start brainstorming right in your blog and save these drafts. The posts can be developed as your ideas flow. I like to write titles and a few bullet points or just brainstorm whatever ideas come to mind on the topic. I don't bother to format or worry about sentence and paragraph structure at this point. Just let it flow.
• It is okay to brainstorm a dozen drafts in one blog if you are going through the spring cleaning process and become inspired about follow up posts. It is a good idea, in fact. Hey, you can brainstorm 12 or 100 posts this way by choosing a title and just listing what comes to mind. These posts can be published over time in whatever order you decide is good. You'll be making headway for a great year of staying on top of your blog to keep it up to date. Hey, that advice is resounding back to me.
  
• Come up with themes for your blogs if you don't already have it well defined.
• Edit and rewrite posts that you intended to come back to later.
• Add some links and pictures in your posts that seem a little "empty" or just "missing something".
• If you cancel a project or projects that you previously announced on your blog, now is a good time to write a new announcement to let those faithful readers know.
• Update your sidebar. Organize items and remove those excess videos and photos to make room for a fresh look for your blog this year. You can store all these items on an archive post and place the link in the sidebar. Call it something like "blog past" in the spirit of the ghost of Christmas past. Just an idea. You'll come up with a good name for this link!