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Thirty Days
A month of posts planned in an afternoon
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THIRTY DAYS
A month of posts planned in an afternoon
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Posting when inspiration arrives produces a feed with gaps in it and a creator who feels permanently behind. A plan fixes that, but only if it is small enough to finish. This guide builds a month from three subjects and four formats, filled in on one page, and batched in a single sitting.
What's inside
- 1Pick three things you are willing to be known forYou choose three subjects you could still talk about in a year, and write a one-line description of each. Everything in the month has to belong to one of them, which is what makes the planning quick.
- 2Four formats you can make on a bad dayYou define four repeatable shapes, such as a short lesson, a behind-the-scenes note, a question and an answer to a common problem, and write down what each one requires. After this chapter you never start from a blank format again.
- 3Fill the grid: a month on one pageYou draw a thirty-cell grid and place a subject and a format in each cell, without writing any actual posts yet. The separation between planning and writing is what makes both parts faster.
- 4Batch day: make ten in one sittingYou set aside one block of time and write ten posts in a row, working format by format rather than day by day. This chapter includes what to do when you run dry at post six.
- 5Where each post goes, and what changesYou decide how one post is adapted for the two or three places you actually use, and what has to change in each. After this chapter, one idea reliably produces two or three pieces without feeling copied.
- 6The two posts that sell, and where to put themYou plan the small number of posts in the month that point at something you are selling, and place them where they will not feel like an ambush. This chapter covers how to write them so they still give something away.
- 7Read the month back and cut what did not workAt the end you review the thirty days honestly, keep the formats that were easy to make and got a response, and drop one subject if it is dragging. You end with a shorter, sturdier plan for the next month.
A sample from chapter one
Three subjects, not thirty ideas
The reason planning a month feels impossible is that most people try to think of thirty ideas. Nobody has thirty ideas. What you have is three subjects and a lot of ways to talk about them. Choose the three now, write each as a plain line, and accept that repeating yourself across a month is not a failure. It is how anyone becomes known for anything.
Good subjects are narrow enough to be recognisable and broad enough to survive the month. A ceramicist might pick glaze results, studio process and pricing handmade work. A running coach might pick training after injury, kit that lasts and race week nerves. If a subject only supports two posts, it is a post, not a subject, so fold it into one of the other three.
- Write your three subjects on one card and keep it where you plan.
- Test each subject by listing five posts quickly; if you stall at two, replace it.
- Give one subject slightly more days than the others if it is closest to what you sell.
- Bin any idea that does not belong to one of the three, or keep it for next month.
Key takeaways
- You need three subjects and four formats, not thirty separate ideas.
- Repetition across a month is how an audience learns what you do.
- A subject that cannot produce five posts on demand belongs inside another subject.
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