I am trying to write daily now (which I’m not always successful at) but I’ve been concerned with just publishing crap every day.

Thus publishing cadence is basically to build a habit, which is just so much easier if it’s something you do every damn day.

I plan to keep this up for 1 year, or 365 posts, and it seems like it would be a shame to write for all this time and only publish things of rough-draft quality. At the end of a year I’d just have hundreds of crappy posts.

The alternative is to basically make writing a full-time job, because editing posts and making them decent would take most of my good energy in a day.

I think I’ve come up with a solution:

Publish every day, and accept the poor quality, BUT, revisit certain topics to write about them again from time to time.

Then, at the end of some months or 1 year – I will have maybe 3 or 6 or more posts on a single topic. Probably a few thousand words, of first draft quality.

But that is then good raw material to edit into a polished final form.

This way I can keep up the daily writing, and more deeply explore some topics that seem to be worth digging in to.

After the writing habit is fully solidified, then I can give myself a break on the cadence and publish less frequently – freeing up time to spend on editing the posts I’ve written on given topics.

Bingo!

A one-year daily writing habit, with some editing, should bake into some solid articles that are worth a damn.

This is my rough plan now anyways… definitely not going to change the commitment to writing daily until I hit at least 100 posts, but hopefully not until I hit 365.

I will need some way to keep track of topics, so I can organize them into bundles and revisit them again later to edit.

Probably simple categories or wordpress tags will work best for this.

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