You Don’t Have To Publish Content Every Day

If you’re not going to do it the right way.

Another day, another article to publish.

I write every single day (which is the most important thing), but I always have to publish content. Without showcasing your work every day, your chances of gaining more traction seep through the cracks.

So hit publish every day, or else, you’ll have zero success. At least, that’s what I used to think.

Now that I’ve published articles nonstop for sixty days straight, I’ve realized that there’s no shame in taking a day off from publishing. Here’s why.

You get more time to edit.

I’m slowly starting to pay more attention to my editing. Sometimes I’d read my article out loud and if it flowed well, I’d put it out without a second glance.

That’s not a good idea.

There are so many components to editing that you can’t brush over. Here they are:

• Cutting your article a lot (almost half)
• Adding anything that will enhance the reader’s experience
• Cutting a little more
• Read it aloud
• Run it through Grammarly

With a rushed schedule of publishing articles daily, it’s easy to get your brain in overload to the point where you just don’t care about the editing process anymore. You’re more focused on publishing the article than polishing your work.

I’m not saying I don’t publish daily anymore, but now I give myself at least two days to edit an article before I put it out. Especially if I think it’s a potential banger. If you really take pride in your work, you have to show it more respect by editing it to the best of your ability.

Throwing it out for the public to see on a whim does nothing for you or your work. It’s a two-way losing street.

You can get your article in more publications.

The dreaded publication wait.

Either you get accepted or rejected and if you wait a certain amount of time, you got rejected. A hard pill to swallow, but still a learning experience to say the least. That’s exactly why you should submit to publications anyway no matter how long the wait.

I’m an impatient person so I used to be the girl who wouldn’t submit to publications and would self-publish her articles into the void to meet her daily publishing goal.

Such a dumb decision.

I’m glad I’ve learned from that and now I put more time into submitting my articles to publications. A daily publishing routine doesn’t matter if you’re showing them to your nonexistent following. If it takes a few days to decide if that publication will take your work or not, please wait. Even if you don’t get accepted, it’s worth it.

If that publication rejects you, try submitting to smaller publications. I’m sure you can find one that’ll work.

You put more thought into what you’ll post tomorrow.

I used to have a panic attack every time an article wasn’t published for the day.

After I calmed down, I’d look in my archive of unpublished drafts. Some I wrote yesterday. Some I wrote six weeks ago. I found myself looking at the ones from six weeks ago and thought they’d be good enough to publish. So I edited them, took one last look, and submitted them to a publication.

Almost every time that happened, the article does a lot better than expected. It’s weird. That proves that every article you write deserves a chance at being published and you won’t know it’s potential until you hit that button.

Final Thoughts

Now I’m not saying that you shouldn’t publish articles every day. I’m a big believer in publishing daily and it does work.

But there’s a way to do it effectively and a way to do it ineffectively. The effective way is to take time to edit, submit to publications, and look through your draft folder for hidden gems.

The ineffective way is to throw out mediocre, unedited content on a whim with no publication attached to it, and paying zero attention to your past works.

What’s the right way to do it? It’s up to you.