How I Keep To My Posting Schedule

It’s been a few years of consistently having a few platforms. They’ve changed in appearance, in name – this year’s username change was a long time in the making! – but I have been managing to keep at it. It took me a while to get into a groove with keeping to a schedule, and I struggled at first, taking on more than I could manage – does anyone else remember the attempt to post on YouTube and Instagram weekly? It burnt me out pretty quickly – but now I like to think I’ve settled on something I can handle.

The key to being able to keep afloat instead of the burnout I ran into when I initially set out so ambitiously is allowing some flexibility. And of course, giving myself some grace when I can’t hit word counts the like of which I see other people managing to consistently hit.

Two short stories a month, only one which I have given myself a minimum word count to hit for; one poem a month; fanfic which I sometimes scrounge up old things for – fanfic can be so fun and freeing in many ways. And then blog posts and LinkedIn posts like this which I’d repost on different days on the scheduled platforms. It’s freeing, to just let myself repackage the same content for my different platforms. Maybe people who follow all of them get annoyed, (do you exist, people following me on more than one platform?) but it keeps me from having to scratch my head finding new things for every platform.

Sometimes I still struggle, I will admit. Sometimes I look at my empty document and have to think for some time as to what I can share. What would my audience be interested in seeing. And then I take a deep breath, tell myself I don’t need to be so wordy, so in-depth – a short update, whether of writing or of life, is enough. And I move on to the next thing.

I think I’ll be following the same schedule into 2026. With the additions to the newsletter – a short story in June and December for subscribers – and then the publishing of this short stories six months later.