Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

I’ve wanted an editorial calendar for the longest time, and even made one (or tried to) in Excel. This one, though, is tons better because it plugs right in to WordPress and is visible with the click of a button.

What I love about this calendar is the point-and-clickability of it! First, you just choose “Calendar” under your “Posts” menu and when it comes up, just pick a day – any day! – click and a place to write a post will come up. You title your post and start writing and it’s automatically saved to your drafts. Should you decide that you don’t want to post whatever it is on whatever day then all you have to do is drag your draft thingy to a new day, and there it rests until you come back to it again.

Um, I’m pretty sure the developer can explain all that better than I can, so make sure to read all that when you go get your copy.

So, what am I going to use it for? Why not everything!? Okay, almost everything related to my work (and planned work) online. I can schedule posts for this site, Human Beams, and the Book of Louis on various days, then work in my other writing work – paid or for classes and stuff, and have a good idea of what I need to do when. Plus, instead of writing something when I schedule it I can either just put the title there and the germ of an idea, or do a quick outline so that when it’s time to write I will not have forgotten what in the world I was planning to write about. As I have done, far too often, when I just put a catchy title and nothing else.

Oh, I forgot that not only does it keep track of what you plan to write, but also what you have completed and posted (on the site it is plugged into, at least, but that’s good enough to begin with.)

Anyway, all I have to say (after having said all that) is… Editorial Calendar plugin – LOVE IT!

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