💻 My Blogging Workflow

I’ll be honest — I’ve never really given much thought to my blogging workflow before. I’m not even sure I’d call it a “workflow,” in that I kind of take a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants approach to my blog writing.

Why do I do this? The answer is simple. I do this because I spent years thinking that I needed to be posting things that mattered, things that people would enjoy reading. I had it in my head that I shouldn’t be blogging without a schedule of some kind and that all of my content had to be related.

After a decade of laboring under those delusions, I am here to tell you that none of that is true.

Blogging should be fun.

This year has been a bit of a rebirth for me as far as blogging goes, and I’m really enjoying it. (I’ve written a bit more about my return to blogging here and here, if you’re interested.) Once I figured out that I could write about whatever I wanted, everything else just fell into place.

In a world where we’re all harshly encouraged to monetize our passions, I’m choosing to not do that. Not with my blog. I blog for me now, and if others find something I write to be helpful or inspiring, that’s great! If they don’t, if nobody even reads what I write, that’s okay, too.

I have no hard and fast rules for my blog, and I don’t have much of a method. I do keep a loose list of topic ideas, just because some days it’s nice to have something to choose from. I also aim to post a few times a week, but if there’s more or less than a few posts, that’s alright.

That’s really it for me. I write when I want to, and I write about what I want to. Because as I said earlier, blogging should always be an enjoyable activity. It felt like a chore for so long, and I don’t want to go back to that. Ever.