hourglass For the past two weeks I've been trying to maintain a blogging schedule.  Before I established one I found that I either would go for long amounts of time without posting anything or I'd have to rush a post mid-week.  I didn't really like having either of those things happen so I figured it was time to get serious and commit to a schedule.  I've been testing out a 2 post a week (Tuesday and Thursday) schedule and it seems to be working pretty well.  I don't really have enough to say for more than 2 posts a week, and Tuesday and Thursday are situated in the week nicely enough for readers I think.

Especially since classes started back up I don't have as much time to dedicate to writing unfortunately, but  I am comfortable putting up 2 a week while knowing that eventually if I had a consistent readership they would get used to the format, and I wouldn't have to pressure myself more.  As a result of having class and work during the week what I do now is write my posts over the weekend (Saturday, usually), format them sometime before they go up (usually Saturday also but it depends, seeing as how the formatting part is my least favorite), and then use WordPress' handy Timestamp feature to set when they go live.  This is a really handy tool to have and I'm glad I started using it.  The time I have set for now is 8:00AM eastern, so if everything goes to plan you should see something new around that time on Tuesday and then again on Thursday.  The only downside of writing this way is that I feel like I'm not being as current as I could be.  For example, if something is announced on Saturday and I write about it, there are 3 days before my post goes live so a lot of what I write about might be disproved or modified in that time.  I'll try my best to avoid that situation though, and hopefully what you read won't be too stale.

So there you have it!  I think it's important to have a solid schedule for anyone who posts content to the internet regularly, that way anyone who is interested knows when to show up.  It's all about consistency.  I think the reason I value consistency so much is that I'm a web comics reader and some of the comics I read aren't very consistent time-wise.  They have schedules, sure, but sometimes you'll check their site to see if the new comic is up and it won't be there until almost night time.  That can be frustrating for me as a reader of their particular works, so I assume it would be frustrating for a blog reader as well.

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