{"id":4093,"date":"2023-04-12T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2023-04-10T22:46:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:46:58","slug":"content-creation-epilogue-the-consistency-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=4093","title":{"rendered":"CONTENT CREATION EPILOGUE: The Consistency Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019ve written a little about spreading oneself too thin, across multiple platforms, and trying to keep active on all of them at a regular – and fast-paced – schedule. What works for me personally seems to be the opposite of what multiple blogs I\u2019ve read advise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONTENT CREATION 101: Commit To What You Create<\/a>
CONTENT CREATION 102: Find Your Own \u201cWrite Drunk, Edit Sober\u201d<\/a>
CONTENT CREATION 103: The First Draft Is For You<\/a>
CONTENT CREATION INTERLUDE: The Procrastination Problem<\/a>
CONTENT CREATION 201: Believe In Your Message<\/a>
CONTENT CREATION 202: Compare Only To Yourself<\/a>
CONTENT CREATION 203: \u2018One Size Fits All\u2019 Does Not Apply<\/a>
CONTENT CREATION INTERLUDE: Imposter Syndrome<\/a>
CONTENT CREATION 301: Burnout Happens<\/a>
CONTENT CREATION 302: Know Your Audience<\/a>
CONTENT CREATION 303: The Thing About Social Media<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Those who write these advice pieces encourage posting on your platforms often, the rationale being that you stay relevant, you remain in people’s eyes. Engagement and activity levels stay high. Everybody wins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for them, this might work. This might even work for you, in which case I say – throw out my advice and work to your strengths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But mine do not lie in that direction. I will freely admit that. I’ve found I burn through momentum and topics too quickly to keep consistent at such a high level of activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do I know this? I attempted following this advice once upon a time. I wound up going through long periods of time with no activity in between almost manic levels of posting. On some platforms, I am still mostly inactive because of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, since I took a step back and reassessed, slowed down on my schedule and focused on just a few platforms, I’ve managed to keep far more consistent.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yes, this does mean I go sometimes a week of two between posts on some platforms – TikTok and this blog immediately come to mind – but I have found an uptick in the quality<\/em> of the posts I’m putting out. I find more clarity and focus in the direction I’m taking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has also allow me to actually try and garner a community, a dialogue, instead of just posting daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With this new schedule – far more consistent than it used to be, thank you Notion and planners – I feel like those who follow me on my various platforms can start to know what to expect. They can see what goes up when – and it helps me<\/em> to keep interaction going with them as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point, it was far easier for me to start or participate in a dialogue on Twitter, but that has dropped recently for a multitude of reasons. (I do still rant frequently about media I am consuming over on that platform however. If you’re into that. And I still post links to all my content.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The most important thing on a personal level is that I don’t feel overly stressed about having to have something MAJOR going up daily. This approach gives me time to work on my posts and my content, to make and write things I’m proud to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is your approach to posting on any platform you may be on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you like my content, consider\u00a0leaving me a tip on Ko-fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve written a little about spreading oneself too thin, across multiple platforms, and trying to keep active on all of them at a regular – and fast-paced – schedule. What works for me personally seems to be the opposite of what multiple blogs I\u2019ve read advise. CONTENT CREATION 101: Commit To What You CreateCONTENT CREATION 102: Find Your Own \u201cWrite Drunk, Edit Sober\u201dCONTENT CREATION 103: The First Draft Is For YouCONTENT CREATION INTERLUDE: The Procrastination ProblemCONTENT CREATION 201: Believe In Your MessageCONTENT CREATION 202: Compare Only To YourselfCONTENT CREATION 203: \u2018One Size Fits All\u2019 Does Not ApplyCONTENT CREATION INTERLUDE: Imposter SyndromeCONTENT CREATION 301: Burnout HappensCONTENT CREATION 302: Know Your AudienceCONTENT CREATION 303: The Thing About Social Media Those who write these advice pieces encourage posting on your platforms often, the rationale being that you stay relevant, you remain in people’s eyes. Engagement and activity levels stay high. Everybody wins. And for them, this might work. This might even work for you, in which case I say – throw out my advice and work to your strengths. But mine do not lie in that direction. I will freely admit that. I’ve found I burn through momentum and topics too quickly to keep consistent at such a high level of activity. How do I know this? I attempted following this advice once upon a time. I wound up going through long periods of time with no activity in between almost manic levels of posting. On some platforms, I am still mostly inactive because of that. However, since I took a step back and reassessed, slowed down on my schedule and focused on just a few platforms, I’ve managed to keep far more consistent. Yes, this does mean I go sometimes a week of two between posts on some platforms – TikTok and this blog immediately come to mind – but I have found an uptick in the quality of the posts I’m putting out. I find more clarity and focus in the direction I’m taking. This has also allow me to actually try and garner a community, a dialogue, instead of just posting daily. With this new schedule – far more consistent than it used to be, thank you Notion and planners – I feel like those who follow me on my various platforms can start to know what to expect. They can see what goes up when – and it helps me to keep interaction going with them as well. At one point, it was far easier for me to start or participate in a dialogue on Twitter, but that has dropped recently for a multitude of reasons. (I do still rant frequently about media I am consuming over on that platform however. If you’re into that. And I still post links to all my content.) The most important thing on a personal level is that I don’t feel overly stressed about having to have something MAJOR going up daily. This approach gives me time to work on my posts and my content, to make and write things I’m proud to share. What is your approach to posting on any platform you may be on? If you like my content, consider\u00a0leaving me a tip on Ko-fi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[718,63],"tags":[731,780,781,59],"class_list":["post-4093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creation","category-discussion-post","tag-content-creation","tag-content-creation-epilogue","tag-the-consistency-conundrum","tag-writings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4096,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}