The creative part of blogging is choosing the subject, writing the piece, and selecting a photo. Everything else is mindless.

  1. Creative: Choose the topic
  2. Creative: Write the rough draft of the blog post on Ulysses.
  3. Mindless: Spell check the post on Grammarly.
  4. Mindless: Upload the corrected post to WordPress.
  5. Mindless: Schedule post to publish at 7 am next daily slot.
  6. Mindless: Select categories.
  7. Creative: Select or take a photo.
  8. Mindless: Change photo to medium jpeg size by emailing it to myself.
  9. Mindless: Upload and title photo.
  10. Mindless: Add a photo to post
  11. Mindless: Preview post and print out for final red felt marker edit.
  12. Mindless: Edit post for the final version.
  13. Mindless: Publish the future post.
  14. Mindless: Copy link of the future post.
  15. Mindless: Go to my Twitter, paste the link, and schedule a tweet for 7:10 am on publication day.
  16. Mindless: Add hashtags, emojis, and a blurb to the post tweet.
  17. Mindless: Schedule tweet.
  18. Mindless: Repeat.

Note: The mindless work only takes about 5 minutes total.