How to Publish Every Day Without Compromising Quality

Avoid putting bad work out there

Publishing every day has been shown to be a great strategy to build your audience, get more views, and therefore more money.

It’s also a great way to get over the fear of publishing and to learn what works and doesn’t work for you.

I’ve seen it myself. I went from publishing 4 stories a month to one every day. My views have gone from 87 to over a thousand.

However, publishing every day means writing a lot of articles. And some of them are maybe not worth writing.

It’s easy to fall into the trap of publishing for the sake of publishing. And of writing stories and publishing them right away without even re-reading them in order to stick to your self-imposed publishing schedule.

So, how do you fix it? You want to publish quality content but you also want to publish regularly and grow your readership.

You need to edit your work

As I’ve written about previously, editing is an important part of the writing process and you shouldn’t edit anything right after writing it.

You need to take a break and distance yourself from your writing. Only then will you be able to see the flaws in what you’ve written.

However, if you’re publishing every day, you’re compelled to publish your articles as soon as you’re done writing them. I understand. That’s what I used to do as well.

Build yourself a backlog

The only way to take the time needed to edit your articles and still be able to publish every day is to build a backlog of articles.

If you have several articles in your pipeline, you’re able to choose one, edit it, and then publish it.

I know it’s not easy to build that backlog. Maybe you struggle to find the time to write even one article every day.

However, you can start small. When I began building my backlog, I wrote two articles one day. I published one of them to keep up with my schedule. The other one, I edited and published the next day. I also wrote another article that day, which I was able to publish the following day.

I repeated that pattern, sometimes writing two articles when I had the time and felt particularly inspired. Slowly, I built a backlog of several articles.

Now, I can pick an article I wrote several days ago and edit it properly. Only with that distance am I able to see my writing clearly and objectively.

A backlog allows you to take some time off

In a couple of weeks, my mother and grandmother are coming to visit me. They’ll be staying at my house for a week. I know that, while they’re here, I won’t have as much time to write, edit and publish articles.

So I’m making sure to have seven articles ready to publish in my pipeline. It’s a lot of work. It means having to write and edit several articles a day.

But I know that it will be worth it when I have family over and I am able to enjoy my time with them rather than try to write stories amid the distractions.

I have found that publishing every day is one of the best techniques to find success on Medium.

But it only works if you publish quality content. It’s difficult to do so while keeping with that schedule.

Having a backlog of articles allows you to always have something to edit and publish. It’s a great way to improve the quality of your writing and to give you a bit of peace of mind.

Would you rather have several articles waiting for you in the morning or a blank page?

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