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Blogging takes time. Good habits help to make the most of your time writing blogs. Here are some suggestions

• Have a system for collecting ideas for your next blog posts
  • A physical file for collecting scraps of paper, such as a shoe box or a suspension file. Every time you get an idea write it down on a piece of paper. Any piece of paper will do, even the back of an envelope
  • A computer file. Mine is called “Blog scratchpad”
• On a regular basis, sit down and look through your ideas file. Write one, two or more draft blog posts. Do this quite quickly. Don’t worry too much about style, punctuation or spelling. Just get the ideas down as quickly as you can
• You may need to do some research for one of your blog posts. Don’t let this slow you down or distract you whilst writing your draft. Instead put some marker in your text (such as “Do later”) and continue (with thanks to Mindy Gibbins-Klein of The Book Midwife™ for suggesting this during her presentation at the recent Euro Coach List Conference)
• Put your draft posts away for now, and come back to it the next day. Now do your editing. Check for spelling, grammar, style and punctuation
• Ask someone else to proofread your blog postings. If you do your own proofreading, leave your writing for a couple of hours. Force yourself to only read the posts for spelling mistakes
• Decide on a blogging schedule. How often do you want to publish new blog posts. With software such as WordPress you can schedule blog posts in advance. Your posts will magically appear on your blog as scheduled

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