I’ve tried to write a blog for at least five years.
I have random folders of partially started blog posts and blog structures littered throughout my computer files. Usually these include a wide range of planning documents that I promised myself would help me to finally launch a blog for real. I would try to predict the perfect cadence for blog posts with a certain category of post running on a particular day.
In every case, this pressure of planning hindered my execution. Instead of thinking through and writing actual blog posts, I would try to create the perfect plan to get the most views. However, without a doubt, unwritten blog post gets the fewest views — zero.
My stumbling block (or at least one of my many) is trying to plan for all the possibilities at the beginning. On a medium like a personal blog—an incredibly low cost and low risk medium—there’s no need to plan to perfection. In my case, that planning always got in my way.
That’s why this time I’m creating no plan.
I’ve created a set of draft posts but no category plan. A list of possible post titles or questions bouncing around my head has replaced my hypothetical plans for themed post days.
Will it work at all? That obviously remains to be seen.