The last quarter of 2013 saw me write more online and I got a taste for it. I have decided to increase the amount I write in 2014 and hopefully add writing to my income stream as a freelancer.
I have been following the photographer Rick Nunn on Twitter for a while now and have always been impressed with his photography projects that gives him a target and produces great results.
So who’s kicking off the new year with a photo project?
— RickNunn (@RickNunn) January 3, 2014
I saw him tweet this the other day and it inspired me to translate that to my blogging goals. I had also been following closely the awesome Blogging for Benjamin project within the WooThemes team, that saw a month of daily posts from the likes of Coen Jacobs, Mike Jolley and Patrick Rauland. This project yielded some great posts and was inspirational to follow.
So to give myself that little push to keep writing all year I am setting myself the target of a post a week for the next year. It is certainly not a hard target and I hope to write more than one a week, but it gives me some structure that should help stabilise my motivation.
Project Proposal
Posts will be on various topics from WordPress, software development, fitness, and freelancing and will be posted here, polevaultweb, Dev7studios, FitPlan.it, and any blogs as guest posts. Like Blogging for Benjamin posts will need to be more than 300 words and can be scheduled for the future but not back dated.
To ease into the project this will count as my first post – week 1 and I will be updating this post with each article as it happens. If you do read the posts or follow this project I hope you enjoy it and I hope I can complete the project and come out of the year a better and more motivated writer.
Weekly Posts
Buffer
- Week 1 - 52 Week Blogging Project
http://iain.polevaultweb.com/2014/01/52-week-blogging-project/ - Week 2 - Why I Changed My Code Editor
http://www.polevaultweb.com/2014/01/why-i-changed-my-code-editor/ - Week 3 - Adding Code Customisations in WordPress the Right Way
http://dev7studios.com/adding-code-customisations-wordpress-the-right-way/ - Week 4 - My Toolset
http://www.polevaultweb.com/2014/01/toolset/ - Week 5 - Software Support is Hard
http://iain.polevaultweb.com/2014/01/software-support-hard/ - Week 6 - WordPress in Its Own Directory & Cookies
http://www.polevaultweb.com/2014/02/wordpress-own-directory-cookies/ - Week 7 - Introducing Instagrate Pro: Automatically Post Instagram Images to Your WordPress Site
http://www.wpmayor.com/instagrate-pro/ - Week 8 - My Go-To WordPress Plugins
http://polevaultweb.com/2014/02/go-wordpress-plugins/ - Week 9 - Back to Basics
http://fitplan.it/2014/02/back-basics/ - Week 10 - Building Useful WordPress Plugins
http://polevaultweb.com/2014/03/building-useful-wordpress-plugins/ - Week 11 - Open Source at Dev7studios
http://dev7studios.com/open-source-dev7studios/ - Week 12 - 5 Ways to Synchronise WordPress Uploads Across Environments
http://polevaultweb.com/2014/03/5-ways-synchronise-wordpress-uploads-across-environments/ - Week 13 - Setting up My Raspberry Pi as a Print Server with AirPrint Support
http://iain.polevaultweb.com/2014/03/setting-raspberry-pi-print-server-airprint-support/ - Week 14 - Using Trello For Everything
http://polevaultweb.com/2014/04/using-trello-everything/ - Week 15 - Developing For Ninja Forms
http://polevaultweb.com/2014/04/developing-ninja-forms/ - Week 16 - Will WordPress be a Plugin Business Killer?
http://polevaultweb.com/2014/04/will-wordpress-plugin-business-killer/ - Week 17 - File Uploads Gets Cloud Storage Integration
http://ninjaforms.com/file-uploads-gets-cloud-storage-integration/ - Week 18 - Welcome WP App Store
http://polevaultweb.com/2014/04/welcome-wp-app-store/ - Week 19 - Harriet & Violet – One Year Old
http://polevaultweb.com/2014/05/harriet-violet-one-year-old/ - Week 20 - Pricing Models for WordPress Plugins
http://polevaultweb.com/2014/05/pricing-wordpress-plugins/ - Week 21 - Marketing WP App Store
http://www.polevaultweb.com/2014/06/marketing-wp-app-store/ - Week 22 - Better Time Management
http://iain.polevaultweb.com/2014/06/better-time-management/ - Week 23 - A New Look
http://wpappstore.com/blog/new-look/ - Week 24 - 3 Plugins That Changed How I Develop for WordPress
http://wpappstore.com/blog/3-plugins-changed-develop-wordpress/ - Week 25 - ACF PRO and the Great Backward Compatibility Debate
http://polevaultweb.com/2014/07/acf-pro-great-backward-compatibility-debate/ - Week 26 - Workflow Automation for WP App Store
http://polevaultweb.com/2014/07/workflow-automation-wp-app-store/ - Week 27 - Why I am excited about Themosis Framework
http://wpappstore.com/blog/excited-themosis-framework/
That’s awesome dude, thanks very much for the mention. I love taking on personal projects for these exact reasons. A little structure & discipline goes such a long way.
Good luck with the writing this year. I am sure you’ll kick it’s ass.
Thanks for your comment Rick. Cheers and I hope 2014 is a good year for you too!