Thought Process: Content Creation
Every day I find myself awake at the same time, I don’t even need to check the clock to know its somewhere around 3am irregardless (yes it’s a word it’s a word and I insist on using it ^_^) of the time I go to bed, I always find myself wide awake during the witching hour.
This is when random thoughts rattle in my brain and jolt me awake, sometimes I promptly fall asleep and forget about the thought, except being haunted by the niggling sensation that I had a flash of brilliance, which I can never recapture. I keep a notebook on the bedside table to capture my flashes of nocturnal brilliance, but half the time its indecipherable to the daytime version of me and the other half its mundane drivel but once in a while, its something alright.
Sometimes I reach for my phone to jot down a couple of words, sometimes it becomes a whole draft that might make its debut to the world via my social media, and eventually up on my blog.
My social media plays a complimentary role to my blogging, not only does it serve to promote and distribute content, it also functions as a sounding board, research tool and to-do list. What starts off as a random tweet (again I insist on still calling those tweets) about turning raw eggs into cake can end up as a satirical post about pan Africanism described as a recipe for a Bake Off.
Don’t let how easily bloggers make it seem, a lot of work goes into content creation, from ideas that spend days, weeks or even years in the space between simply being an idea in a creative’s head to a draft that might never ever see the light of day, to finally pushing the publish button.
But wait, let’s back up a bit it, before hitting that publish button, there’s still the fact-checking and proofreading that precedes it, although for the life of me, I cant figure out how some mistakes irregardless of how many times I proofread only pop up when I hit publish… 😂
All of my posts have custom feature images that means I spent a couple of minutes in a photo editing software, some take a couple seconds to cook up others take surprisingly longer, and after a week of content creation, the numbers add up.
Then lastly before I publish I figure out the title… believe it or not when I first sit down to create my content I really have no idea what the title will be unless of course its prompted content like reviews where the title is ** insert the name of the body of work** add review at end.😂
Some say that without a title you will go off topic, which would probably be right because this post is supposed to be a peek behind the scenes of my blogging journey and the passion that fuels my creativity….
What does your content creation process look like?
~B
Becoming The Muse 
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