Blaugust: Staying Motivated Week

This week’s Blaugust prompt is Staying Motivated!

You are getting close to the final stretch. The idea here is to share some of your secrets on how you have stayed motivated while blogging on a regular basis. You might share some tips or ideas you have for making topics happen when you are feeling uninspired. If you are fresh to the initiative you could talk about some of the ways you have managed to keep yourself engaged this year.

First, my biggest callout would be to use the content calendar plugin! It has helped a lot with creating ideas and readjusting based on ideas I get from the blogs I read. It’s a great way to pre-schedule content so that you don’t need to necessarily sit at the computer every day writing a blog post—instead you could have a few hours once a week of blog writing if the mood so struck! The content calendar plugin has also allowed me to create a pretty ample collection of evergreen posts to pull from.

My other biggest advice would be to keep some easy evergreen posts to pull from. Memes, lists, easily answered prompts… they can all sit there in your unpublished posts waiting for the day they’ll be used, even years down the line. That day when you’re not motivated to blog but still want to get something out. Or that day when you’re experiencing writer’s block. Or even that day where you have low spoons. Just remember to keep a link to the original post to reference and give credit!