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How To Trick Yourself Into Blogging More Frequently

January

28th

Hannes Johnson

I know, it’s a cliché… but I’ve been busy with other things ;) And it looks like my brilliant trick isn’t quite bullet-proof - although I have dozens of drafts in WordPress, another dozen of Notepad documents and also physical notepads with half-finished blog posts… But somehow I couldn’t find the time to finish these posts.

So I’m going to try a new trick - write really short blog posts. Inspired by the concept of microblogging I think I might be more willing to write short blog posts - rather than having to worry about writing insightful 1000+ words blog posts with research, graphs and the whole shabang ;)

Well, in microblogging a post can be anywhere from one sentence (with maybe a link or two) to a few paragraphs. So it’s pretty flexible. These short posts, or microposts, should take less than 30 minutes to write - well, they should probably take less than 5 minutes but you shouldn’t have to worry about time restraints. The idea is to just get the idea out there as quickly as possible - it doesn’t even have to be grammatically correct, you can just edit the typos later on - when your visitors point them out ;)

But sometimes when you start out writing a micropost you might get more and more ideas while writing and you’ll be inspired to write a full-length post - and that’s definitely a good thing :)

It might be appropriate to set up Asides to handle these microposts - to separate them from the “real” posts. I might also consider using any of the microblogging services out there to write short posts (and maybe import them into this blog).

The only problem with short posts like that is that it’s not so easy to add in-content AdSense ads when the content is only 2 sentences ;)

This post is kind of a micropost - I wrote it fairly quickly (although it took more than 5 minutes) and only read it over once. What do you think - is this a short post or a normal post? Maybe it’s just somewhere in the middle…

What do you think of the concept of microblogging? Do you think it could help you blog more frequently (which means more content on your blog = better chance of ranking in the search engines for cool keywords)? Are you going to try writing short posts every now and then? Oh, yeah, of course - even though I’m going to try writing more short posts it doesn’t mean I’ll stop writing full-length posts that I put a lot of work in :)

Also, in short posts I might not explain everything in detail - so that’s an excellent opportunity for the readers to post comments and ask questions.