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A Day In My Life As A Blogger

*I would like to preface this blog post by saying that this post is more like my ideal day as a blogger and not like every day that I spend blogging. This kind of day happens maybe once a fortnight at best!*

Most of my blogging takes place on the weekends when I have more time to spend with and on my blog when my mind is not full of the stresses and strains of weekday life.

I wake up from a restful night’s sleep, stretch and get up. I prepare a cafetiere of my favourite coffee (Hot Lava Java) and settle on the sofa with my cuppa, laptop and Roxy. I spend a few hours reading the blogs I follow while drinking my coffee.

After catching up on blog reading I check my notificatons and reply to comments before heading over to my email. I read through my emails, responding or flagging anything that needs attention.

Once my emails have been sorted I then open up my blog bullet journal and see what posts I have scheduled in to be written. I like to make notes on what I am going to write before making a start.

I head over to Canva and create some heading for my posts before uploading them to my blog. I open a new post and add the image header, write the post, re-read it, edit and spell check and then set it to be scheduled.

Once I have all my posts written and scheduled I head to my stats screen. I like to keep a track of my stats on an Excel spreadsheet, so open that up. I then add in each day’s stats, having a look for any patterns that I can see. I like to use these stats for lots of different things, from seeing which days are the most popular to what sort of posts people seem to be reading most or interacting with.

If it is coming up toward the end of a month I like to have a look at my blog calendar for the month ahead which is also on a spreadsheet. I may make some amendments and change the posts over to different days before adding the whole calendar to my bullet journal.

I then check my notifications again, respond to any comments and then go back to read any new posts that may have been added by the blogs I follow.

Sometimes I have a mind-mapping session and go through my blog categories, playing word association with each category which I find a really useful way to generate post ideas. I will also search the words using Instagram or google and see what sort of posts come up, noting down any other relevant hashtags that may have been used.

Usually, this can take me a full day, and it is the sort of lazy but productive day that I love!

What does a day look like for you as a blogger? I’d love to hear about your blog routines in the comments!

What Is A Blogger_

When I say to people that I blog, most of them assume that I just write and publish to the internet but there are a lot of other things bloggers like me do aside from writing. Today I am sharing with you what a blogger is.

First and foremost a blogger is a writer, we write about lots of different things. There are blogs that people write about gardening, mental health, reviews on products, books, fashion and beauty. You name the topic and I’m sure there will be a blog post written about it somewhere on the internet.

We are content creators, we are constantly thinking about things that would be interesting to write about and things that fit into our blog niche.

We are photographers, taking photos of things that we can add to our posts, and alongside that we are image editors, tweaking our photos digitally to enhance the lighting, shadows and making the most of the subject we have chosen to capture.

We are graphics creators. We use different software’s to create page banners, logos and other items that we can add into our posts and social media channels to make them more visually appealing.

We are editors, writing posts and then re-reading them and checking them for grammatical and spelling errors, often re-writing parts of sentences and even whole paragraphs to make them easier to read.

We are social media marketers. We share our blogs on different platforms in the hope that other people will want to read the posts we have written.

We are website designers, choosing how our blogs look to the outside world and how they operate. We run checks to make sure that links work and things appear as they should and where they should.

We are schedulers. We often work out a schedule of posting that fits in with the rest of our lives, sometimes this is easy to do and other times it can be hard. Some people choose to blog daily and others work to a one post a week schedule. We can be driven by self-imposed deadlines and try our hardest to stick to the schedule we have.

We are “stats” people. Many of us are interested in the stats we generate, from page views to likes, comments and follows. We like to keep tabs on this information and try to make sense of it.

We are readers and researchers. We are always reading about things to do with our subjects and are interested in any new developments. We research our topics to make sure that our facts and writing are correct and that our thoughts and arguements are well rounded.

We are not takers and makers. We often have books full of ideas and thoughts, things we can do and things we need to do, things to look into and ways to improve.

But above all, we are human. We make mistakes and we have days where we don’t want to get out of bed or leave the house. We have lives outside of our blogs, we shop, we meet friends for coffee, we cook and eat food. And we are all unique in what we write, what we post and what we do.