This blog post is the first of a week-long challenge, the intro post if you will. Not to jump ahead of myself, but the challenge is all about outlining when I write, and this post is a great example of why the challenge was so important to me. This is the blog post where I came up with the idea, and I didn’t outline this piece and it shows. Hahaha, you should have seen it when it was still a draft.
Whelp, I did it again. I went a weekend without planning or editing anything. I’m adding that to my task list for this week because it’s June now (at the time of writing), meaning that July is just around the corner.
I seem to have found a productive way to procrastinate. I have been getting books organized, tracking the webtoons I read, and the movies that I own all on Notion. So while it doesn’t get me further ahead in my blog posts, it still needs to be done.
But that’s just me justifying the procrastination. Because I could have worked on my other tasks (organizing books, etc) after I edit one or two blog posts (on a given day). But I didn’t, I’d always put the less urgent tasks first.
Today, the day I wrote this, is a Sunday. With a new week ahead of me, I could plan to edit one or two pieces a day. That way I can move forward, but it’s not overwhelming, nor will I settle to try to do it all in one day. Goodness knows that that doesn’t work. I can do it though, it just allows for a lot more distraction.
No, I know I can do it. I did it during my LOTR marathon. But I totally flopped when I tried doing an Anne of Green Gables marathon. That was on me, though.
All of this, though, the need to edit, doesn’t take away from the fact that I still don’t plan, nor have I sat down to plan. I want to be better, and I’m getting there. I move maybe a centimeter a day. So that’s not fast enough.
This seems to be the main thing on my mind these past few weeks, and I haven’t done anything to change it. Not really. I’m getting better, but not fast enough.
But what does that mean? How am I improving? I am using Notion more, just not to plan out content. If I don’t plan out content soon, this won’t be good for my website. The videos are going fine, but my website is struggling with a lack of content, though I have ample pieces to choose from.
What I love about my writing video series is that it keeps me accountable, and I get to share my love of music, tv, and movies with the public.
I’m currently at 447 on the word count; that’s not good enough. Not that specifically because of the word count, but because I want to write good pieces, and I’m struggling.
Right now, I have Thumbelina on, and while I could sit and watch the movie (it’s a childhood favorite), I want actually to be writing—and not just writing stream-of-conscious thought. I want to write good pieces, articles and blog posts that really say what I want them to. And ones that will reach an audience.
Is it just the planning? If I planned better (aka at all), would that get me on the path of improvement? I think so.
I’ll put that to the test. It’s late; otherwise I’d do it today. I will come up with five topics tomorrow that I will write about this week and put together simple outlines. Ah, and I will build the format into the template to be there when I’m ready to write during the daily writing sessions. I’ll also include the outline word count so that it doesn’t mess me up when I add the word count to the TikTok video.
I’m going to try this out for the next five days and write about the experience on Saturday. These won’t be posted as part of the July blog post challenge. Instead, this will be the start of a week-long series in August.
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