Brian shared about the key to starting out in blogging being a steady drip. That’s so true.
The problem is that most of my creative juices flow less like a leaky faucet and more like Old Faithful. When any of it comes, all of it comes. Then it’s dry again for a time. Unlike Old Faithful, my moments of inspiration are hardly regular enough to anticipate.
Enter the queue.
Instead of my readers being alternately overwhelmed and underwhelmed on a regular basis, I can queue up posts to appear on my blog when I need and want them to. I currently have three posts waiting in my queue.
While this doesn’t work for a ministry-update post (news is most effective closest to when it happens), it is very useful for a post sharing something you’ve been learning or a funny video you found on YouTube.
Tumblr (my platform of choice) makes this very easy with a drop-down menu on every new post, in addition to a “queue” section of the dashboard where you can even set up queued posts to be delivered every day, two days, week, month, etc.
Wordpress also makes it easy with a drop-down menu allowing you to select exactly when you’d like a specific post to see the light of day. (So does TypePad. – Jayson)
So, even if you’ve got a geyser for a brain, your readers can enjoy a nice, steady drip.
This post was, appropriately enough, posted using Wordpress’ scheduling feature.
