>Is it easy to imagine your output would increase if you were to batch your writing?

It surely did. I find that when I write everything I have to say, and limit a post to 1200 words or less, I often have enough for a series.

>Do you feel like the quality of your articulation would suffer or benefit from batching your posts?

I benefit, as writing a long post that becomes a series of posts allows me to really explore an idea more fully. I’m more interested in it, and I hope my writing is more interesting as a result.

>Do you think that batching posts could lead to an increase in time that could be spent in your comment section or perhaps reading the blogs of others?

I suppose so. Though with all that I have going on in any particular moment of time, I’d likely have to use any time I saved elsewhere!

best wishes,
Rick

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Kristin: I am exactly the same way. The freelance gigs are different. They are born in my inbox. Posts on WD though, they are almost always birthed in conversation while I find myself searching for a notebook to make sure the thread is never lost. These days, I have far more thread than time to weave, but I’m sure that won’t always be the case.

Jannie: HA! My drafts section looks a lot like my closet. Tons of moth eaten paragraphs just sitting there in the dank dark. If I spent a single day tending to those loose strings, I might have enough text to keep me published for a month. Yes, having a blog without a niche is totally awesome.

Vered: This does not surprise me in the least. You seem like such an organized person. I like that you’re down to 2 a week. I wish I could do the same thing. I keep saying I’m going to drop to three, but I NEVER do. Itchy fingers I guess. Or itchy brain. Maybe both.

Evelyn: Not terribly inefficient at all. It sounds like you have a really fertile mind which is terrific. Also, you’re batching your comments and Stumbles. That sounds perfectly efficient to me.

Miguel: Hey, Miguel! Yeah, I’m with you. I plotted out this whole month for the first time ever. Even though the posts aren’t written, the fact that I know what I’m going to write about is such a load off. I think about the topic in the hours before I sit down to write, even if it’s just in the background of my mind as I go about my business, and then if feels fairly fluid when I actually have my fingers on the keys. Knowing when to stop when my mind tells me, that’s an area where I could definitely improve.

John: Breaking one article into chunks is article batching. It works like a charm. That’s mostly the way I do it. I could never do a dozen articles on the same subject all at one time. Even when I have a dozen in a batch that are due, I have to break them up into smaller clusters. It’s just too much and I start resenting the work – the worst thing that can happen to my creative spit. Batches of four works well for me, and sometimes I can write them as a long 2,000 word thought and then split them into pieces. If they are organized from the start, this can be fairly easy to do.

WereBear: It’s amazing how many blogs are left abandoned to float forever in the emptiness of old cyperspace. Tis true, blogging is a grind and it is easy to give up. I LOVE Scrivener. My favorite word processor ever. I wrote my first novel in Scrivener. I haven’t had much cause to use it lately, but it is an absolutely fantastic application for creative writing. Really really elegant.

Paul: Well worth the scratch, if your blogs are there to make money. If they are your personal outlet, then not so much.

Barbara: You have a system, and that’s all that matters. My wife and I have different systems for everything, but what we each do works for us individually. It sounds like your system works well for you. Congratulations!

Eric: That’s perfectly put. Not about my qualifications, about batching. Technical stuff, no problem, but do I find it easy to batch WD posts? Er, not so much.

Matthew: Thanks, Matthew. The absolute best thing for motivation is taking projects that you really want to do. That’s harder in the beginning because you’re willing to take anything that pays the bills. Soon, hopefully, I’ll be writing less about lawnmowers and more about stuff I’d really like to write about. I’d be lying if I said there weren’t any moments that I truly had to push myself through.

J.D. Routine really, really helped me with production. When I first started, I used to dance around from task to task all day. I simply cannot do that now and keep up with the demands of my day. I have to follow a schedule otherwise my production drops with drama.

I’m with you … there’s a lot to be said for chewing on a topic and then writing in bursts and batches. It’s a great way to write with might.

I like your point that once you get the ball rolling, your thoughts snowball with momentum.

One thing that helped me is writing ahead of time. I try to make it more of a routine so that I can gain efficiencies. But I supplement routine with ad-hoc and inspirational moments, so I get the best of both worlds. I used to wait for inspiration, but life passed me by. Now the routine helps me snatch opportunities when they happen … like greasing the skids for serendipity.

Another thing that helped me is factoring “creation” from “production” where creation is writing it, but production is editing, sweeping ,and publishing it.

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