Julie R. Neidlinger: Lone Prairie Art and Writing

Writing in advance.

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In my draft section of my blogging account sit many drafts.

Many, many, many drafts.

I really should finish them. They are fine ideas. I just never bothered to finish them. If I were to finish all the drafts I'd started in all my blogs, I'd have an additional 300 posts of content to work with.

Whew!

One reason I don't go back and finish the drafts is because the moment that they were pertinent to whatever I was thinking or doing or desiring to share has long since passed and the topic doesn't seem as pressing anymore. It would behoove me to finish the drafts, ready to go, so that when I found myself stuck or in a dry spell, I at least had material that could be published that was written when I was hot on the topic. To go back and try to resurrect interest for some of the posts is like eating sand.

I've never eaten sand.

Well actually, yes. At the beach. Big waves. Terrible things.

Anyway, back to writing in a timely manner. Check out this post on developing good blog writing habits.

I don't have the ability to write and set them to post automatically. That would be very nice, though it feels a little like cheating. Part of my shtick whilst blogging is that what ends up on this site is fairly fresh, not too moldy, and written/published as close to the moment as possible. I'd like to think it sets me apart from the local newspaper, which arrives a day late and causes me to miss out on all the cultural events that they seem to see fit to announce the day of.

I could, however, start stockpiling some writing for those sandy days.