Are you planning and preparing your Hive articles in advance? DO you have a system, perhaps a media calendar for publishing on various topics? Or you just go along and publish as things happen in and around you?
Everything that happens in your life is an opportunity to write about. When you have your eyes open the world is your inspiration.
So, how do you cope with this sometimes overwhelming influx of ideas?
I am a lists person. I am an old-fashioned guy with a pen and paper approach. I write down on a sheet of paper what would I like to write about.
The trouble with lists is that they are getting longer and longer instead of being shorter.
You have more ideas you publish articles. The reasons are various and have to do with your priorities, time, other tasks. After all, publishing on Hive is not the first priority for most of us. Although we spend far too much time here :)
To illustrate this article here is an unrelated photo of winter that came on Wednesday.
Kids and dogs are crazy about the snow and spend all day outdoors. Which is right!
No photos of people. I have a rule not to post personal photos. The exception being my sorry face.
Back to the topic ... the Hive articles to-do lists.
Here is an example:
A list of eight ideas, better said wishes for articles, written on a used envelope. Yes, I reuse every piece of paper to the fullest.
I have many of these papers and lists. Not everything gets realized and published. Is it the 80:20 rule in action? Or is it just the rule of life? Priorities are different than your wish list.
For the record, I am using a digital to-do list too. It's called To Do, a Microsoft app that once was Wunderlist. I have many leftovers over there too. Currently 14 items in the Hive list, the oldest being from October. Ehhh ...
Many times I am too lazy to write about something that I wish to tell you, mostly about the games that I play on Hive, because it involves a bit of real work in preparing the article.
So I write about something completely different. It was like this yesterday late in the evening when I looked at the list above and said to myself: "Eh, I am fed up with it for today. But I do want to publish something. Let's show the snow."
This short article was the result. Surprisingly, it was well-received by you. Thank you!
What is the moral of this story? To throw the lists away? To write more? To be more selective? Does it really matter in any way? Lists are not our life. What we do and think and feel is our life.
In the end, I will still be writing more ideas and more lists. And I won't be sad if these lists and ideas don't turn into articles. Some of them will, many of them never will.
By the way, an idea for this article wasn't on any list.
Better and better
