Bloggiesta Day #1 Update

What I did today:

• Updated my Music Monday spreadsheet — So I don’t repeat songs, I’m trying to keep track.  Once I finish  my 101 favorites list, I want to highlight some artists/songs that I haven’t featured yet.
• Transferred paper TBR to spreadsheet — Now I have my entire crazy ass long TBR list in a spreadsheet that’s easily organizable.  That was quite a project, but I’m glad it’s all done.
• Added TBR spreadsheets to GR shelves — Well, this is mostly done.  I got most of the likely TBR books in GR and ready to be added to the currently reading shelf.
• Cleaned up the right hand column — Updated a few of the percentages and challenges (especially the perpetual challenges).
• Recheck the reading challenge spreadsheet/update posts and right column — Everything should be updated and ready.
• Updated most of the pages: About, Inspirational quotes, review policy, thankfuls, reading challenges.  I also deleted the projects I love page as it was hopelessly outdated.  I still need to update the Blogs I Love.
• Updated DZP — Finished updating the page on my blog and the projects site.
• Added series to book reviews with links to my reviews — This took awhile, but I finally finished.  Now I just have to remember doing this for future reviews.

I am amazed that I got through this many points today.  Granted they were probably the easiest and quickest points on the master list.  Now on to the harder/more involved points.  I decided to add some of my mini challenges to my update posts to make them easier.

Organization and Scheduling Posts from On a Book Bender

After some tinkering and tryouts, I think I’ve finally landed on a weekly blog schedule:

• Monday — Music Monday
• Tuesday — Top Ten Tuesday
• Wednesday — Quote Wednesday
• Thursday — Thankful Thursday (sometimes)
• Friday — *open*
• Saturday — *open*
• Sunday — Sunday Salon

Reviews get posted whenever I finish them.  Life posts and random nonsense get posted whenever, but I love to use some of those to fill in the open Friday and Saturday slots.  This has helped me keep myself on track.  I don’t ever have a week where nothing is posted.  I like the stability of a weekly routine.

I learned a while back that I needed to keep a running calendar for all my posts.  While I do like using digital calendars for appointments, classes, etc, I can’t use them for blog posts.  For those, I actually write out the days of the month in a notebook.  Then I add all drafts/routine posts.  When a draft is in WP, it gets one half of an X.  When I finish a post, it gets the full X.  At a glane I can see what I’ve done and what I need to finish.  It also helps me space out nonroutine posts instead of accidentally bunching three posts on one day.  I’ve also added templates for my routine posts.  I have templates for:

• Book reviews
• Monthly wrap-up posts
• Top Ten Tuesday posts
• Music Mondays
• Sunday Salon

These have helped me so much stay consistent.  I love organization, when I can keep on top of everything…