good post is like a good dish, better on a low heat (they say). Is this true? How can we make a good post without just enough time? Can it be done?
Rule number one: Break the clock.
The best post in the world has no exact time, no time, no time zone. The worst, either.
You can't be a worse blogger for not having much time. If you don't have the time, nothing happens, well, it does happen, but it's a matter of taking it on and, with everything you know and/or have in mind to put it on (virtual)/screen, get to it with love: take it as a challenge and go for it all.
There are no issues that anyone has talked about, and if there are, there is probably a lack of information everywhere. Moral: the important thing is your way of telling it, your experience behind it, your skills and what you want to convey and never so much the unpublished of the subject.
You can have your whole life ahead of you, do nothing and have nothing and in a single second get it all. The moment that concentrates a whole life, after years without living at all, that Oscar Wilde said. Moral: Time does not exist. Make it up. Make it up.
Have a backup of ideas. And a notebook or any other place to take notes and organize the ideas that come to mind, no matter where and why. Evernote for this is a good choice. One of the things that most paralyzes (and takes time out) when it comes to making a post is the search for topics. Have tools to help you, or have them ready to use. Another option: your favorite fonts, the top tops. Also, getting away from the computer and the subject helps you see clearly why you need to go back to it and what you want to tell about it. Everything is worth: mind maps, photos, bits and pieces, quotes, etc.
Distractions 0. What do you mean? As in everything else: to avoid distractions, the best thing to do is to fall into them (all of them, even the ones you hadn't even thought of and suddenly arrived). And then, to the pit (no multitasking moments, thanks).
Simple structure. The best thing about having it clear and applying it from start to finish is that the post practically writes itself. We simply let what we want to capture flow into a guided path. There are those who prefer to make diagrams (with more lyrics or more drawings/images) on a physical paper or not.
Images in mind. Have free image banks on hand or whatever your source is. This is another of the moments that take the most time to make a post.
Don't dismiss a good idea, however simple it may be. Everything starts there, from a comparison between a sector that has nothing to do with the one you are going to deal with and the one you are going to deal with, to a vision of someone or several celebrities applied to what you want to tell, to metaphors and even moments in your personal life, something that always connects with the reader.
Don't be afraid to change as you go along. That is, remove an entire sentence or paragraph because you have new ideas that fit in much better with this other one instead of deleting it for good you can always rescue it in a safe file for other future posts.
If something blocks you, skip it. (Or postpone it to the last step). It is very common that it happens that we look for a word or expression that does not come out and we focus so much on its search that we stay in it. Other options: the extract, which there is no way out; solution: we leave it for the end. With the headline, same thing.
Pamper your conclusion. Better open: give up the last word, question. L
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In any case, when you have time, and you post slowly, slowly, without any hurry, you should value it and enjoy the quality of the moment, because it's great when it also happens that the creativity appears and everything fits together. That's priceless. And if inspiration doesn't come, there will always be a time when it will, because you have time.
Now, is it better to write a slow post or one at full speed? There is no clear-cut answer to this. It can be one or the other depending on several factors. Once done and published, the results always come to light.
The key is to have something to tell, a story. The nuances, factors and circumstances may improve or worsen the outcome of this task, but in no case will they be decisive for evil if the story, whatever it may be, is good in substance and form.
