When I was younger I was big into planning. That is, until a series of events that I planned for didn’t happen. Because of those experiences I threw planning out the door, leaving my life open to whatever God wanted to do with it, trying to pretend that I didn’t care anyway.
Then I grew up and realized how childish my resolve was. Rather than disregard my bent towards planning I needed to temper it and make room for the unexpected.
I started this, and the two other blogs I have, without a plan. After all, isn’t blogging about putting your heart out into cyberspace without a care in the world about who is reading it? Today, I’ve realized that that thinking is as foolish as my initial resolve to stop planning my life after those series of disappointing events because, the truth is, I do care. When I write something and someone doesn’t even bother to at least ‘like’ it, I feel deflated and unappreciated after all the hours I put in carefully crafting my posts.
I just read The Prepared Writer’s Process for Creating Excellent Content Every Day by Katie aka The Wellness Mama. Don’t wait for inspiration, she suggests. Take control of your content by planning to write. Have a “content strategy” and an “ultimate goal” as your foundation and build on that with a structured routine of writing. I visited her blog and it’s impressive. As a wife and mother of 5 homeschooled children, she has to plan to write!
I’ve never thought of myself as a writer, but it’s clear that if this, and any other blog I’ve started is to be as successful as hers, there must be some merit in planning my writing.
And, I will.
Let’s see how it goes.