Showing posts with label structure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label structure. Show all posts

Friday, January 8, 2016

Structure

I'm quite sure none of my readers know this already. I hate structure. I despise being forced to have a schedule. When I started my blog, I told myself that I would write every single day. I needed to post to attract readers and maybe get some of those people to read my book, and then maybe find those people on Twitter, where I could post more blogs. It's a cycle.

Obviously that experiment failed spectacularly right around the holiday season. I realized I was burning myself out, had lost a ton of data on future post ideas and was just generally very blah about the blog. Plus I really like spending the valuable holiday time off with people I enjoy seeing, family, people I can't see most of the year. So, I felt like a tiny break was acceptable, and I hope my readers can forgive me.

Then I realized that I had author interviews and fun guest posts coming up this month and I started to get excited again. I've had a great time working with Mr. Ephe and other upcoming guests! Sharing the space I have here, (hopefully) getting them some new readers or fans, all of that has made it fun again.

I still need a bit of time to get my blog-legs back under me after such an extended break. I will probably be easing back into my blog throughout January. If this blog still exists at this time next year, I plan to do the same sort of thing. Starting in November, I will be tapering off my posts, a few things over the holiday season and then slowly producing more content starting in January until things get back to normal.

I also think the every day posting schedule is kind of failing. Certain things I wanted to do like #TuesdayBluesDay just haven't seemed to catch on. So, without further ado, I give you:

The 2016 Hope Woods

Blog Patch 1.01


  1. I will be taking Thursdays and Sundays off.
  2. I may still do hashtag days but they will likely be limited to once a month.
  3. I'll try to get one interview and one guest post each month.
  4. I will try to maintain #Caturday.


I would love some feedback about these ideas, suggestions, any comments, etc.

Please feel free to email me suggestions for #TuesdayBluesDay or if you would like to Guest post in 2016. If you are someone who does something interesting who wants to be interviewed, please contact me!

nonsteader@gmail.com