I've come to realize, after a year and a half of purposeful blogging, I need to get organized. It's getting tougher and tougher to sit down in front of the computer screen and fire off a blog post. First of all, it's super hard to think up a topic off the top of my head. Sometimes I'll get an idea for a post while I'm cooking or driving or showering, but I don't write it down and the *poof* I forget what I was thinking about. I've seen a flowery fancy blog organizer advertised on the internet. These must be for Mommy Bloggers. I don't mind a flower or two, but this one was certainly flowery to the nth degree.
Another organizing tool I would like to begin to use is a calendar of some sort to remind me of special bloggers I'd like to link-up with on certain days. Often I'll finish my post and hit Publish, and then *facepalm* I've forgotten to add the link to their blog and have to edit my post. Or worse, forget to link altogether.
One blogger told me she has a "dummy blog page" where she writes drafts of potential blogs and then copies and pastes them to her real blog page when she is read to publish. The header for her dummy page is DO NOT PUBLISH in giant red letters. I don't know if this would work for me. I think it may have been helpful when I was working on redesigning my page. I know I went back and forth and back and forth on what I liked and what I didn't like. I even scared myself when I thought I'd deleted the whole thing.
I'd love to hear any suggestions my blogger friends or readers use to organize their blog and blogging time. Some of you have such gorgeous blogs.
191. Organic local strawberries (these cannot be compared to grocery store berries)
192. Knowing I will be ON VACATION at this time next week
193. An "attaboy" from my boss (rare and far between)
195. It's Friday (just sayin')
196. Knowing I'm making lamb stew this weekend (we love lamb stew)
197. I've started walking again and it's a good thing
Another organizing tool I would like to begin to use is a calendar of some sort to remind me of special bloggers I'd like to link-up with on certain days. Often I'll finish my post and hit Publish, and then *facepalm* I've forgotten to add the link to their blog and have to edit my post. Or worse, forget to link altogether.
One blogger told me she has a "dummy blog page" where she writes drafts of potential blogs and then copies and pastes them to her real blog page when she is read to publish. The header for her dummy page is DO NOT PUBLISH in giant red letters. I don't know if this would work for me. I think it may have been helpful when I was working on redesigning my page. I know I went back and forth and back and forth on what I liked and what I didn't like. I even scared myself when I thought I'd deleted the whole thing.
I'd love to hear any suggestions my blogger friends or readers use to organize their blog and blogging time. Some of you have such gorgeous blogs.
191. Organic local strawberries (these cannot be compared to grocery store berries)
192. Knowing I will be ON VACATION at this time next week
193. An "attaboy" from my boss (rare and far between)
195. It's Friday (just sayin')
196. Knowing I'm making lamb stew this weekend (we love lamb stew)
197. I've started walking again and it's a good thing
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