Freelancer's Office: Blog

You have heard of editorial calendars, right? Those are the things that magazines create to help freelance authors know when they need to be submitting particular pieces for specific seasonal issues of the magazines.

Well, I have decided that I am going to be creating myself an editorial calendar for my blogs - something that I can use to reference what kinds of articles I want to be writing for each of my blogs during the various times of the year for seasonal or date-specific material that I want to be sure I get written up in time for a certain event.

For example: my editorial calendar for my weight loss site will note that I want to start working on an article for a 30 day slim down piece in December so that I can have it ready to post by the first week of January as a target piece for ladies wanting to loose 10 pounds by Valentines day. My editorial calendar for my family caregiver info site will note that I want to start working on an article for how to reduce stress during summer vacations with care recipients in January so that I can be sure to have it finished and ready to be published on my site by mid may when most people are looking foward to preparing for a coming summer getaway in June.

By preparing these editorial calendars I am hoping that I can eradicate the hassle of scrambling to get articles written and published at the last moment - instead I will have a clear roadmap to show me what I should be working on and when I need to begin work on it.