When I found out that Florida was expecting to get another major hurricane the first thing I did was I started planning content ahead of time and writing a few extra posts. During Hurricane Helene, we didn’t lose power because it didn’t hit my area hard but with each hurricane, you never know what to expect and have to prepare for the worst and hope it turns out to be nothing. Consistency is important for growing a blog but you can’t be consistent if your Internet is down, and you can’t publish new blog posts, which is frustrating for bloggers because your blog doesn’t grow when you can’t create new content. When I started blogging it took an entire day to write a relatively short blog post and there would have been no way I would have been able to plan an entire week of posts in a few days, but I am grateful I now can because I am a huge procrastinator. I don’t think I have ever planned so much content in such a short period of time, but I am glad that I did because I knew posts were still going to be made if my Internet were to go out. How did I manage to create an entire week’s worth of posts in just three days? In this post, I am going to talk about what I did to create a lot of posts in such a short period of time.
Plan your topics in advance- If you know you are going to be away from your computer for a few days or even a few weeks, it is so important to have some kind of plan on how you are going to get that done. When I started writing extra blog posts, the first thing I did was I figure out what topics I was going to write about because you can write posts a lot faster when you know what your topics are going to be and all you have to do is write them. Planning is your best friend when you have such a short period of time to write posts, because you can waste a lot of time when you wing it and have no idea what to write about. It takes time to come up with topics, and it can be so helpful to be organized because you don’t have a lot of time to waste, and every minute counts.
I wrote multiple posts a day- If you want to write as many posts as I did in such a short period of time the only way that is going to be possible is if you write more than one every single day. I have been writing three to four blog posts a day and in my seven years of blogging I have never written more than two in one day and I don’t even do that very often. I am mentally exhausted and started to experience a little bit of blogger’s burnout but I know that if I didn’t write multiple posts in a day I wouldn’t get as much done as I did because I didn’t start preparing until Sunday which was only a few days from when the hurricane was supposed to hit. I have been doing double the amount of work and it is exhausting but I will be glad I did it when the power goes out and can’t write for several days because my blog will still grow even though I am away.
I did not procrastinate– There are a lot of things that can distract from being productive but you cannot procrastinate if you have a lot of work to do in a very limited of time. For the last couple of days, I have probably spent ten to twelve hours a day creating content and have done nothing else. Most days I will do something relaxing in the morning such as coloring to prepare for the day, but I have not done that in a few days and have been very focused on work and usually start working shortly after breakfast and will not stop until bedtime. I have always been a procrastinator and most days I can because it doesn’t take me more than a few hours to write a post but when you have limited time it’s so important you don’t procrastinate because you would be surprised by how much time you can waste scrolling Facebook.
I started working early- Most days I don’t start working until noon, and usually that is plenty of time to get everything done because I can write a blog post pretty fast, but if you want to get extra work done, it is important to give yourself more time. Sleeping enough is important for productivity, and you don’t want to skimp on sleep, but at the same time, you don’t want to sleep in too late because if you don’t get up until mid-afternoon, you won’t get as much done. Most days, I am in bed before midnight and am up by seven, but very rarely, I sleep in, so I set an alarm just in case, because in order to get more work done, you have to wake up earlier. I didn’t wake up at the crack of dawn to write blog posts, but I did start working well before noon, which is not something I typically do.
Writing as many blog posts as I did is not ideal and is something I will probably never do again unless I go on vacation, have a surgery or there is another hurricane, because there is no reason to, but I know I can. Most times when I am going to be away, I ask for guest bloggers which can help with the workload, but I didn’t this time because it was too last minute and you can’t expect other bloggers to drop everything and write a post for you immediately and you have to give people a reasonable amount of time. It was mentally exhausting to work constantly, and a break is much needed, but I will have plenty of time to rest when we don’t have power, because even if we don’t lose power that long, I know I won’t have to start working immediately so either way I get a break. Luckily, we never lost power after the hurricane, but we did lose Internet for a few days, and I couldn’t have blogged anyway. I wrote more content than I needed, but that’s okay because there was no way I could have known how much content I would have needed. It’s always better to be over-prepared than underprepared because there is nothing you can do if the power is out and you didn’t prepare enough. Have you ever written a large amount of posts in such a short period of time? How did you get everything done? If you liked this post, please leave a comment below and share it with your friends.
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