A Guest Post by MissSuzie
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Fortune: He who hurries cannot walk with dignity.
Have you ever checked your stats and saw that your visitors were still returning despite the fact you haven’t posted anything new? Did it make you feel worse than the way limburger cheese smells? Did you find yourself rushing to throw a post together just to have something new for your visitors to look at? If so, let me guess — it turned out to be a bad idea?
I can’t count the number of times I have thrown something together in a rush just to have a fresh post for my visitors to read. It never fails, I end up regretting the hastily made decision. Every post that was rushed turns out to be lacking in so many ways. I fail to get my point across as clearly as I would have liked. There tends to be more errors than I care to admit (I counted the use of your instead of you’re three times in one hurried post and could have kicked myself). And on top of it all, each rushed posts ends up taking away from my blog instead of adding to it.
Sure, fresh content is a must have for a blog to be successful, but thoughtless posts are not. I have learned that my readers read my blog because of the way I tell a story. It doesn’t matter if I post everyday or every few days as long as I tell the story. When I rush to create a post, my words become meaningless and it becomes apparent to the reader (and my readers are the kind who will email me and say “‘try again”).
We need to make sure we aren’t rushing our posts, but allowing them to come naturally. Getting caught up in trying to post daily will leave a blogger burnt out and spinning his or her wheels. Nothing good will come from spitting out new content just for the sake of something new to look at. A rushed post is never a good post — and the fortune said so.
Cathy, it was definitely not part of the plan. I can't believe no one caught it until now. Thanks for the heads up!
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