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RE: #MySteemitFormula | Consistency is the Name of the Game (#SteemitGoals)
Aaaaw shucks I'm blushing.
Thank you for the mention and the beautiful compliment you 2 😊 It really means a lot coming from you, as I also feel your blogs/vlogs to always be of excellent quality. There isn't a single post you make where we don't learn something new and that, to me, is what makes Steemit worth coming back to.
Question for you as I am very curious to know: how many hours per day do you (honestly) spend doing Steemit related things (including photo/video taking, writing posts, commenting, chatting...)? I'm so curious to know how you can write such amazing posts and still find the time to take care of all the hundreds of activities a homesteading venture requires.
<3 well now i'm blushing too! lol... love that mutual appreciation!
yeah so i reflected on this and talked with ini. it definitely varies day to day and the first thing to go is curation and the ability to look at the feed. each day, however, guaranteed posting =
breakdown:
vlogs are the fastest as i usually just document what's already happening in our lives -- so i do that recording during the event so no real time outside of our life here except maybe a 10-20 min segment doing the recording.
depending on edits and ease of upload to my computer (it's an older mac so it has its glitches) and to dtube (obv issues there sometimes) -- 1-2 hours edit/upload - during which i can get up to speed on comments, etc. oftentimes ini will write the text for the vid while i do this.
posts we write in fits of inspiration ;) lol so rarely am i sitting around trying to make a post... we find a topic that flows and go with it. i think our numbers for that account are skewed for the single user looking in because remember we're double the trouble here!
photography- again, i take these while i'm living my life so it's really difficult to quantify. i'll carry my camera around and snap a ton of photos to be used later (which i also double whammy posting to my instagram too as i love the crowd there) and when we're doing a homestead activity that we'll post about later, i just snap photos as we go along. again, i think that differs for people who have to create posts from scratch kinda as it's really in the flow of our lives (so again hard to say timing).
uploading, writing, editing (photos and text) probably take 2 hours per post (on avergage - @abh12345's #welcometosteemit post took us a LOT longer than this as it was a different niche than we're used to- a lot more "takes" for the vlog-- seriously struggled with it on a sunday morning lol! and 4 hours at least for the text ;)) and some posts, like contests or "thought pieces" as we call them take less time.
excavation posts - like digging up stuff and photos from the past take longer due to searching of photos, racking the memory, etc ;)
so yeah likely 3-4 hours average a day for me (wren) and ini throws in an article here or there and will go on a commenting streak! @the-hearth has basically taken a backseat to 1 hour per week- just don't have time for it!
as far as making time while homesteading- as referenced above, a large part of it is integrated into the flow of the day and also during "the heat of the day" -- 90s here lately and it's not even summer whew!, it's refreshing to take a steemit siesta, and in the evening with a cold beer is also a nice time to steem and catch up on comments/brainstorm posts for the next day ;) really treating this a part time job for long term investment :D
curious about your times as well- i know you've said you put a lot of hourage into your posts (which definitely shows!!) xx
Thanks for the detailed reply Wren.
I guess the fact that the 2 of you are able to combine ideas definitely helps you be more efficient and cut down a lot on production time. Double trouble for the win!
I think the difference between you and a lot of other Steemians out there, including myself, is that you live what you blog. Fully.
As for me, if I'm not travelling from one place to another (as I have been for the past few weeks), busy with life, friends, job hunting and other randoms, it will usually take me minimum 4 to 10 hours to write a single post (yeah... i'm slow!). This is counting photo taking, selecting, editing, researching, formatting, writing, erasing, writing again 😉. I also find it hard to find inspiration to write about everything that I do, and I'm a slight perfectionist which doesn't help my case.
Following @the-hearth as I see you've got a few good resteems there (with some familiar faces and new ones I have yet to discover)
well it shows in your posts- they're immaculate!! xx i agree too that producing posts is a lot lot harder! i can understand the perfectionism thing too! haha what's your sun sign? now i'm curious :) and i hear you on life-busyness! best wishes on your job hunt and thanks for giving the-hearth a follow xoxo!
I'm a scorpio 😧
Thanks xxx