I hate scheduling my posts. The immediacy of feedback is gone when posts are scheduled. Half the fun of blogging evaporates when, instead of sharing my thoughts as they come to me, I postpone saying what I want to say in this artificial way. Also, it’s hard to keep track of what was scheduled for what time. WordPress does not make it very easy to remember which posts were scheduled to appear and when they were going to come out. As a result, there are times when two or three posts come out almost at the same time which is confusing both to me and, I assume, to my readers.
The reason why I got into this whole post scheduling thing is that people started to complain that I publish new posts too often and they can’t keep up. I understand the readers’ plight and recognize that I do write a lot. Before I started blogging, I had paper diaries that I filled in very rapidly. I started my first diary when I was 11. The last time I wrote in my paper diary was the day before I got the brilliant idea to start a blog. Blogging helps me keep my BP (blood pressure) down. It makes me happy and kind to my students, acquaintances, and even university administrators.
This is why I need to be able to blog as often as I want, people. I’m sorry if the number of posts gets too much and you feel you can’t read all of them. I’m really really sorry to be inconveniencing the subscribers and the Twitter followers who get notifications of new posts every two hours. I tried blogging less and spacing the posts through scheduling but that doesn’t make me happy. And if it doesn’t make me happy, then what’s the point of the whole thing?
So, thankfully, this will be my last scheduled post.
Clarissa's Blog 
I write some posts in advance if I know I don’t want to write any later, and I have an excess of ideas on one particular day. At one point I was a month ahead on SMT.
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Blog as much as you want! I don’t get why people feel they can’t ‘catch up’. It’s not current news, it’s a blog about your thoughts. And you’re so good about responding to comments that even if one did read a blog post a month later and commented on it, they’ll still be able to interact with you.
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Thank you, you kind person! This is exactly what I wanted to hear. 🙂 As for the comments, I get the all on my BlackBerry and so it’s easy to answer them immediately wherever I am. It doesn’t matter when a post was written, I get the comments to it immediately anyways.
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Semi-useful tip: The feed settings in Google reader give you the option to have the blog delivered daily, bi-weekly, or weekly. So if you don’t like a new blog post appearing every 2-3 hours then you can change the settings to get a bunch of posts bundled up for you at the frequency you want.
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This is, indeed, very useful. I, for one, had no idea.
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Hmm, this is weird. I swear I had this option when I first subscribed to your blog (and to all other feeds as well). Now I can’t seem to find it. I’ll look into it some more and post here if I find something useful.
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I am for not scheduling posts too, if it makes you unhappy. It can lead to blogging becoming one more task, and not very pleasant one, when it’s supposed to be *fun* first of all.
You’re in my favorites (don’t like notifications) and I think it’s the best: you blog as often as you want & I read as often as I want, what I want and comment where I want. 🙂
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The best way to blog is to blog for yourself!
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Thank you for the support!
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