How To Blog Faster, and More Efficiently

Here are a few blogging tips to help you become a blogging master.

Post via E-mail
This option can be turned on in your Wordpress blog by going under Settings -> Writing.

What this allows you to do is post to your blog by sending an email that you have set up.  Therefore, if you have an iPhone or internet-enabled cellphone you could pretty much “blog on the spot”.

Think of this as your own twitter space… instead of tweeting to your twitter microblog, you are tweeting to your own blog.

The only limitation with this is that you can only post by email to a chosen category.

Schedule Your Post Publication
Ever have one of those nights where you can just keep going and going? (like when I was in my 20’s )  Okay… I meant you could just write on and on, but you don’t want to publish them all in one night.

Well, Wordpress does allow you to schedule your posts, so you can “content drip” your blog.

When adding a new post (or editing a post) you will see a Publish metabox that allows you to change the publication date from the default immediately to a date/time of your choosing:

This is a great way to make your blog “work” while you are on vacation.

So if you know you will be on travel for a month, you could simply pre-write your blog posts and schedule them to publish for that period of absence to make it appear as if you are keeping up with your blog!

Keep a List
I don’t know how many times I’ve told myself, “Hey, I should really blog about that!” when carrying out my daily routines or in talking with people.

These are the moments that gives you inspiration and ideas of your next blog post, but if you don’t start blogging about it immediately or at least write it down on your “My Next Blog Post List” it will most likely be forgotten.

So, it is a good habit to have a list on you so you can write down your ideas to capture these previous inspirational moments.

For me, since I’m on my computer most of the time, I simply login to my Wordpress blog and start a post.  Write up a title to remind me what this will be about, and hit “Save Draft” instead of publishing.  Then I can come back to these draft posts and finish them up later.

Small Words, Big Finish
Do you know how freakin’ difficult it is to write in a way that makes you sound more intellectual than you really are?

Once I tell myself, “Look Steve, don’t show off your vocab, because you’ve got none!”, my writer’s block tend to just disappear.

In fact, if I were to read a blog and the blogger throws out big SAT words and use complex sentence structures, it really turns me off – it makes me feel stupid!

Once I accept who I am, write the way as if how I would talk, words tend to flow better for me.

Try this yourself, and let me know if you have an easier time going, I mean, blogging