Editorial Calendar…I Did It!
After my post Monday, on all the reasons why I should quit blogging, I have renewed my focus on improvement. My biggest area I need to improve regarding my blogging is photography and one of the components to getting better photography in my posts is planning. I might be able to write a post on the fly but that approach doesn’t always work for the photos.
To better plan out my posts means the idea of an editorial calendar. I have thought about this many times and have told myself I needed to do one but kept putting it off. But if I want to improve, it needed to happen. So I sat down and did it.
The idea part was fairly easy. It was the figuring out what exactly I needed for photography and how I would make that happen that proved to be the challenge.
My approach was very simplistic as you can see below.
Idea:
Description:
Research Needed:
Photography/images needed:
I wrote these headings out for the first month (each week Monday – Friday) and started filling in the idea piece. Like I said the easy part. Then I went back through and fleshed out the ideas with the descriptions, research, and images needed. At least ideas of images needed.
I admit I wish I wouldn’t have put planning like this for so long. It makes me feel so much better that I know what’s coming up and what I need. I already have the photos for a couple posts for next week and that has never happened. It’s liberating!
The first two weeks are 100% done and the rest of month at 85%. Mostly because I don’t know exactly what I will be photographing to correspond with a couple blog posts. Besides making me feel better, planning out the entire month allowed me to work in a trip that is planned and a family even that will provided interesting content. I felt much more purposeful and that made me feel more like a “real” blogger!
I’m so excited for September!
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