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How To Maintain Your Blogging Routine During Online Classes

August 6, 2020 / 62 Comments
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I’m very much excited to share with you this first collaboration post from me and Pooja of LifesFineWhine! In this post, we’re going to talk about maintaining your blogging routine during online classes.

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We know that things are way different these days, and we have to catch up with everything we left off since the start of this pandemic, and that is our schoolwork. School is now starting for some countries. And so, Pooja and I have made a post on how to maintain your blogging routine during online classes.

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Managing both your blog and your studies at the same time is quite difficult to do, considering the time you allot into everything while maintaining your physical, mental, and emotional health intact. So, we hope that you take in these helpful tips to help you manage your schedule throughout!

Make your blogging routine flexible

Now that you have another thing that will be taking up your time every day, I suggest making a flexible blogging routine. Something that would complement your time for your classes.

For example, if you only have classes on MWFs or TTh, you can adjust your blogging routine to which time or days you are free. You can do it every night and allot maybe 2 to 3 hours for writing your blog. In that way, you will be able to do it every night or alternate nights.

Your priorities come first hand and you don’t want to avoid distractions when you study for your online classes. But you may also want to keep on blogging so that your blog would still be active.

Wake up early

Waking up early can do you a lot of good things, especially now that you have another responsibility. It sucks when you have to do a lot of things the next day, and then not being able to do them when you wake up late.

You will think that you have wasted a few hours to be productive and get some schoolwork done. So practice waking up in the morning, and visualize the things you will do that day. This will maximize your working hours for both your blog and class requirements.

This will help you set your mood, your goals, and your mindset for that day. If you’re having a hard time waking up early, start practicing now, so that your body clock can easily adjust.

Commit to an easy schedule

Other than making your blogging routine flexible, your schedule should also be easily applied and practiced. You will be stressed out and bombarded with a lot of tasks if you set up a hectic schedule.

Imagine your work piling up, one task after another because you have a hard time following your schedule.

Make one that you can easily commit to, even if that means taking a few hours of rest from blogging, it’s still important. Don’t set higher standards than you can’t maintain– it’s okay to do things one at a time.

Avoid distractions when you’re doing school work

Exit that WordPress tab on your browser when you’re doing schoolwork. It will make you more focused on what you’re doing. And the more you are focused, the faster you’ll get your schoolwork done, and get back to blogging again.

Avoid other distractions too, when you are blogging. Writing your blog requires as much focus and brain juices as doing your school requirements. Have a balance between both.

Set aside time to do both separately, and avoid multitasking if you consider yourself unproductive under those circumstances. Be mindful in the moment whenever you write on your blog, or do some school work. If you multitask, you might end up not having to finish much work at the end of the day.

Set up a checklist

Don’t do all your tasks at once. If you can’t do them every day, it’s totally fine too. You can set up a checklist of the things you ought to do every week. Spread the tasks that you can do that week, and then try to complete them before the weekends. Don’t worry, you have a whole week to do so.

Also, if it helps, you can think of the next topics you can write about during your rest hours and not during your blogging hours. And then, put them on your checklist too. This will save you time from thinking about what topic you can write when you are in front of your laptop or phone ready for blogging.

Plan ahead

With school, blogging, work, and life, you may end up getting very busy. Sometimes life happens, and you end up being forced into certain situations that are out of your control.

You may also end up getting overwhelmed when you have assignments due, tests, or exams. That’s why it’s always a good idea to plan ahead.

It’s a good idea to write and schedule your posts in advance when you have time so that later on you don’t end up having too much on your plate, and not doing either schoolwork or blogging work properly.

Don’t lose hope

I know it can be very overwhelming to study and blog, and the fact that a lot of us don’t have in school classes and have to take online classes does not help because it is a lot of change all at once.

It’s easy to lose hope or to lose energy/motivation to continue blogging. However, that can lead to a major downfall for your blog, because as you probably know, staying active is a big part of growing your blog.

Blogging and writing in general is one of those things that you need to keep practicing and doing on a regular basis. 

Sharing is caring

If you feel overwhelmed with school or even just life in general and feel like there is no way you can write a post, well then, you don’t have to. You can always share/reblog a post by someone else that you enjoyed. That way, your blog is active, plus you are supporting another blogger, which is always awesome. 

Try something new

As someone who has been blogging since 2015, I know that at first blogging is super exciting and you are just full of ideas but after a while, you can start running out of ideas.

This is especially the case when you have school, and a lot of your energy is going into schoolwork. If you feel like you are running out of ideas, try something new.

Try writing about a personal experience, maybe even what you’re learning in your online classes or how you feel about online classes versus in school classes.

Looking through other blogs and seeing what they are doing and drawing inspiration from their posts is also a great way to get some new ideas. Always credit the person you took inspiration from, of course.

Be prepared 

Online classes and maintaining a blogging routine is not easy, so be prepared. Be prepared to be overwhelmed sometimes, be prepared to feel exhausted sometimes, be prepared to want to quit sometimes, and also be prepared to feel extremely proud of yourself when you keep going despite all these things.

Lastly, be prepared to have things go wrong because, at some point, they will. It could be as small as scheduling at the wrong time by mistake or something as major as losing your comments/likes on some of your posts– both of which I have been through. Just know that in the long run, it will be okay, and it will all be so worth it.

If you feel like you are getting too overwhelmed, please do seek help from family, friends, or even a professional. It is ALWAYS okay to ask for help when you need it.

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Conclusion

We hope all of these points help you maintain your blogging routine during online classes! Remember to be gentle with yourself and avoid getting stressed too much. 🙂

Let us know in the comments how you plan to maintain your blogging routine during online classes!

I would like to thank Pooja for giving me this wonderful experience to work with her. She has been very helpful and understanding. All the love! <3

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