When I was into travel blogging, it was impossible to get an article out in a day or a week, in the traditional sense of writing. I mean, I could pump things out and they could sound good, but would they keep people on the page the entire duration? Probably not, and probably not even close.
I would spend a day up to a week planning out places to go to with 2 block breaks in between each place.
The two empty blocks served a purpose.
One block was to start an article or finish a previous one not ready to hit the press yet.
The other block was time to revisit places where my notes were lacking, or, I found new information on the place that could captivate more people if added. So, I would revisit them and expand on the article or notes to write for it.
Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa |
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Visit place, take as many in depth notes that could be structured for a good article, and capture as many photos as possible for filler. | Work on article | Post article or revisit place for more information. | Repeat | - | - | - |
Starting out, I could get two articles per week done without pressure. However, places tend to stack in tourist zones, and the calendar becomes quite packed where I could visit two places in 1 area to finish 2 articles the next day, and shelve one for a later post (posting after I know it's accurate and doesn't need another visit).
After a while, there were so many articles stacked in a week that I could push out 4-5 articles a week or bank some for a slower week if I wanted to take some time off. Eventually, I dropped Saturday and Sunday for family time because I had so much content to post for the next 2 months, was in the zone to get articles out quicker, and had an audience that expected a release cycle of sorts where traffic would pump on certain days (Mo, We, Th [for tourist planning on Fr]) into the 1000s after each post (with, of course, reoccurring traffic as articles ranked for those places).