My New Plan B · 22 November 2025
It seems that I now have a new Plan B when it comes to getting a blog post out when I do not have a blog post ready. I just grab one of my DailyPrompt pieces and voilà! A new blog post is ready.
There are times when I do not have a blog post ready. Imagine that. It is not that I procrastinate. It is usually that I had something come up that was more important than writing my new blog post. Not that my blog is not important. It is. After all, I need to make sure that I get something out for my faithful readers (both real and imaginary). And I need to keep up my streak.
Okay. Keeping up my streak is not important. Not really. I do see it as a measure of my own writing discipline. The longer my streak goes, the more I realize that I am committed to writing. Or at least that is what my mind tries to tell me. Keep going. After all, you never know when you are going to be an overnight success after years and years of working.
Lately, the more important thing keeping me from writing my blog post is editing books. I have a couple that are ready or nearly ready for publication. (After seeing one of them printed, I know I need to fix the cover.) And yes, that is a bit more important than getting my blog out there. For even though my faithful readers (both real and imaginary) are discerning, hopefully, they do not know which blog posts I came up with weeks before publication with many hours of editing and polishing and which ones I came up with moments before my self-imposed deadline. (Which, by the way, is Thursday before it goes live on Saturday. So I can have give a preview to my followers on social media. Hint. Hint.)
Okay. Most of my blog posts do not go through hours of editing and polishing. Most of the current ones are done a week before I post them, then polished and uploaded on the preview Thursday. That is about it. No muss. No fuss. Just write stuff, edit stuff, polish stuff, post stuff. Simple.
But there are some weeks when something messes up my process. Which usually means that there is something that makes me miss my Saturday blog writing session. But that is okay. Because now, I have a backup plan. I do not need to have a piece of filler ready to go (like I used to). I do not need to throw something out there that is more drivelly (is that a word?) than normal. I have a new goto. A new Plan B. I have DailyPrompt.
One of the nice things about writing short pieces for DailyPrompt is that I now have many pieces ready as backups for when I run out of time for posting my blog. I can post a poem that I wrote. Or I can post a piece of fiction that I wrote. Which also hopefully drives traffic to DailyPrompt, where people can read lots of the short pieces that I have written and posted there.
I am glad that I have a new backup system for my blog posts. I am glad that I have written enough short pieces on DailyPrompt that I do not need to worry when I am not able to get a blog post ready in the time that I want. I am glad that I have a new goto. A new Plan B.
By the way, there will be times when I post from my DailyPrompt pieces when it is not because I am going to Plan B (or Plan C as the picture suggests). But I hope my faithful readers (both real and imaginary) cannot tell.
© 2025 Michael T. Miyoshi
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