How To Take A Month Off From Writing

For any writer juggling a busy schedule, it’s inevitable that life will get chaotic once in a while. It’s a delicate formula to figure out for keeping a healthy balance between work and life – wouldn’t it be nice to know that you can step away from writing your Twitter, Facebook and blog posts for a whole month WITHOUT anyone knowing? You can! Here are some tips on how to take a month off, without feeling the impact:
1. Write extra posts now, and then post date them throughout the month: You can hand them to a virtual assistant to post (or even assign it to a responsible teen). Schedule posting your updates on your calendar and it’ll only take you a minute out of each day. Or sign up for a free or low-cost buffering service such as socialoomph.com or Twuffer.com that lets you set up posts, post-date them and then finished the process of publishing live for you. Schedule two hours at the first of the month to sit down and power out 60 tweets, or 12 Facebook posts or eight blog entries, etc. You can do it!
2. Find guest writers: Reach out to colleagues, team members, people you have worked with or loyal clients. Ask them if they would like to have their time in the spotlight as a guest writer on your blog, website or social media. Have them send you their posts, and you can approve, publish (and post date) as necessary. This is a fantastic idea to expose your readers to new people and resources that can help them and your value will rise as well in their eyes for providing varied and good quality information they can use.
3. Reuse and Recycle: Old posts (published more than a year ago) can be used as the foundation for new posts. Update current events, refresh the content according to your present viewpoint and even link back to the old posts. A fun idea would be to have a “time capsule” article in which you highlight past writing, even past predictions and then see if they came true or comment on how things have changed in present times.
4. Transform business products and services into new articles: Have a virtual assistant, or yourself, go through your current business copy such as product descriptions, manuals or brochures, or information products. Often entire articles can be inspired by content you already have – and you will educate your readers more thoroughly on what you provide as well.
5. Testimonials: You already have articles in your possession and don’t know it. If you have a business, look no further than testimonials for inspiration and a way to set up quick articles ahead of time. You or an assistant can also do this. Reprint a testimonial along with a description of your work together and how you helped solved your clients problems. This is a great way to share those valuable testimonials about your business, as well as demonstrate what you do and how you do it for their education.
So if you find a vacation looming in your future, or maybe you’ve just decided that you deserve a break, you can use any of these ideas to quickly assemble strong, quality articles that can be saved and posted at a future date automatically to ensure you are able to take a break, but that your articles keep on working hard for your success.