{"id":324,"date":"2013-12-31T15:40:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T21:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/?p=324"},"modified":"2013-12-31T15:43:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T21:43:56","slug":"blog-challenged-i-heard-using-an-editorial-calendar-helps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/2013\/12\/31\/blog-challenged-i-heard-using-an-editorial-calendar-helps\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Challenged \u2013 I heard using an Editorial Calendar helps"},"content":{"rendered":"<style><!--\n\/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d\";\n\tpanose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;\n\tmso-font-charset:128;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:roman;\n\tmso-font-format:other;\n\tmso-font-pitch:fixed;\n\tmso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d\";\n\tpanose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;\n\tmso-font-charset:128;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:roman;\n\tmso-font-format:other;\n\tmso-font-pitch:fixed;\n\tmso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin-top:0in;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:10.0pt;\n\tmargin-left:0in;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d\";\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:JA;}\na:link, span.MsoHyperlink\n\t{mso-style-priority:99;\n\tcolor:blue;\n\tmso-themecolor:hyperlink;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;\n\ttext-underline:single;}\na:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed\n\t{mso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-priority:99;\n\tcolor:purple;\n\tmso-themecolor:followedhyperlink;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;\n\ttext-underline:single;}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmso-default-props:yes;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d\";\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:JA;}\n.MsoPapDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmargin-bottom:10.0pt;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;\n\tmso-header-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-footer-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n--><\/style>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hi, my name is Adriana Gomes, and I\u2019m Blog Challenged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I know I\u2019m supposed to post regularly, pick a day of the week and bam! Do it. I should write every week, every Monday, or Friday or whatever day of my choice, as long as I\u2019m consistent. Then something happens and I\u2019m derailed, just like that. My father gets sick and passes away. My husband gets transferred from the East to the West Coast. I must find good schools for my daughters. I need to sell my lovely spacious home in Atlanta and find a small fixer-upper we can afford in the San Francisco bay area, all sorts of messed up stuff, the stuff of life, or in my father\u2019s particular case, death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Tentative dark humor apart, this year was ridiculously tough on me, and if it was an absurd one for you as well, I\u2019ll share my plan to get this blogging thing going next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">First; work on my personal forgiveness, you know, letting go of the heaviness that has pulled me down in 2013. Then work on an editorial calendar, like the magazines do. I\u2019ll create a list of topics, greatly influenced by seasons, holidays and book launches. I&#8217;ll spice it up with quotes, short stories, favorite old books, and some personal adventures and crises (I have a plethora of the latter to share). Then I\u2019ll spread the ideas on a calendar and keep it updated as interesting news come up. It seems quite straightforward, yet tricky. I\u2019ll give it a try.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">To make things easier there are plenty of editorial calendar templates available on line:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For Google Docs:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/templates?q=editorial+calendar\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/templates?q=editorial+calendar<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A Plugin for WordPress:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/editorial-calendar\/\">http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/editorial-calendar\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And if you are planning to add multiple contributors, meaning you\u2019re way ahead of me, hubspot has a nice option for you:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/offers.hubspot.com\/blog-editorial-calendar\">http:\/\/offers.hubspot.com\/blog-editorial-calendar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can also create your own Editorial Calendar on Excel:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/editorial_calendar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-326 aligncenter\" title=\"Editorial Calendar\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/editorial_calendar-1024x495.jpg\" width=\"522\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/editorial_calendar-1024x495.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/editorial_calendar-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/editorial_calendar.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: '\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">These are just a few interesting options for your consideration. I\u2019ll be using the WordPress plugin. And may the Muse be ever so kind to us all in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, my name is Adriana Gomes, and I\u2019m Blog Challenged. I know I\u2019m supposed to post regularly, pick a day of the week and bam! Do it. I should write every week, every Monday, or Friday or whatever day of my choice, as long as I\u2019m consistent. 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