I did it, with much gnashing of teeth: I put Edwardian Promenade on a schedule.
Upcoming Posts
March 30 – The Bradley-Martin Ball of 1897
Apr 6 – The Four Hundred
Apr 13 – The Social Season
Apr 20 – The American Country House
Apr 27 – The Waldorf-Astoria
I hesitated to do so for a while because I liked the freedom and flexibility of posting whatever, whenever. But that worked fine when EP was a small site originally used to get all the research info clogging my head into some sort of “resevoir.” EP has had over 120,000 visitors within the past year or so, and it gets apprx 60o+ unique visitors daily. A drop in the bucket compared to the big blogs, but it’s pretty damn good for a niche blog I like to think. That freedom and flexibility has ended up becoming a chore as I’ve grown accustomed to blogging when I felt like blogging–which, now that I’m knee-deep in real life, has become less of a priority, hence the twitter activity–which leads to a semi-abandonment of EP. So there it goes, a schedule for the last week of March and the entire month of April.
And it has a theme: Edith Wharton’s New York! To commemorate this new theme, the header for this blog was changed to a screen shot from the movie adaptation of one of the books that have changed my life, The House of Mirth.
(So you can tell what I’m presently writing about in my WIP. *g*)
I’m looking forward to reading the posts!
Thanks Victoria. I’m pretty excited about the direction I’ve taken with blogging and writing.
I know exactly where you’re coming from, Evangeline. Once regular visitors start to pop in you feel an obligation to keep posting. Lately it’s been hard to maintain my various blogs, but when too much time passes between posts I start to feel guilty. Good luck maintaining your schedule! I have yet to stick to mine. Vic
I hope to do so. I think setting a schedule turned into reverse psychology without my knowing it because I suddenly had a burst of energy to write three somewhat unrelated blog posts, lol.