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Problem: Something came up all of a sudden, which wasn’t planned in advance. Perhaps the surf is firing. Perhaps you just want to take the day off. But you don’t have time or energy to crank out your daily blog post.
Practical WordPress Tip: Write a few articles—in advance—specifically for when you want to take off to the mountains.
This is similar to writing in advance when you are going on vacation, the difference being that vacation articles are scheduled ahead of time, but these articles stay in your draft queue, finished and ready for publication on a moments notice. Carry the dates on these a day or two ahead of the current date, instead of a month ahead as suggested in Practical WordPress Tip #2: Make Your Draft Queue Work For You.
Why: As it turns out, this tip was written expressly to publish sometime in the next week… the surf will come up, and I’ll make a command decision to go surfing instead of write blog posts.
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The benefit I get when I have a couple posts ready to fire at a moments notice is that I feel less pressure to write, so I am actually more relaxed and focused when I *do* sit down to write my daily blog posts.
This Tip ended up in my queue of posts to publish while I’m at Burning Man.
Ok, so I’m not at Burning Man yet, but I’m doing backflips getting ready and having something ready to publish is helpful!