Practical Hacks For Planning Your Blogging Calendar

In this post, we give you practical hacks for planning your blogging calendar. Writers Write creates blogging resources and shares blog writing tips.

If you blog, or write for social media, you need to create some sort of calendar to help you plan your year.

Practical Hacks For Planning Your Blogging Calendar

This helps you to think about what is important to people at different times. Knowing this gives you an angle. It also gives you ideas when you don’t think you have another post in you.

What are you going to share?

The best way to do this is by breaking your blogging diary into topics and types of posts.

Examples:

1. Lists
2. Informative Posts
3. Interviews
4. Infographics
5. Worksheets
6. Questionnaires
7. How-To Articles
8. Quotations
9. Templates

Must-Read Post: 40 Types Of Content That Will Make Blogging Easier For You

When are you going to share?

Regular Monthly Posts

We have monthly posts that are regular features:

1. Writing Prompts For The Month
2. Top Writing Posts From The Previous Month

You can also have yearly posts.

Regular Weekly Posts

You could also decide what you are going to blog about on different days of the week. Use social media hashtags to inspire your choices. Reading suggestion: 85 Hashtags Writers Need To Know

Examples at Writers Write:

1. Monday: We had a Social Media Monday at Writers Write. We posted about blogging and social media on Mondays.
2. Tuesday: We posted about business writing or grammar on Tuesdays at Writers Write.
3. Wednesday: Mia Botha chose to post about short stories under the Short Story Challenge tag.
4. Thursday: Anthony Ehlers posted a series on Write Your Novel In A Year every Thursday. In 2017, he posted a series of inspirational posts for writers.
5. Friday: We try to feature guest posts on Fridays.
6. Saturday: Optional – we have no set posts for Saturdays.
7. Sunday: Optional – we have no set posts for Sundays.

You would need to decide which days of the week you will share content. You may decide to blog three times a week, or you may decide to post every day.

Which days will you choose?

Another great way to plan your blogging and social media calendar is by noting important holidays, and national and international days of interest to your audience. You can plan posts using these holidays or days as themes. This is also great for marketing.

For example, writers and readers will be interested in the following days (sometimes weeks or months):

Writing-related Days

1. Banned Books Week – September: Example: Banned Books Week
2. Book Lover’s Day – 9 August
3. Famous Authors’ Birthdays: Example: Margaret Atwood’s 10 Rules For Writing Fiction
4. International Literacy Day – 8 September: Example: 12 Inspiring Literacy Quotes
5. International Plain Language Day – 13 October: Example: 30 Famous Authors On Writing In Plain Language
6. National Author’s Day – 1 November: Example: The 25 Best Quotes About Authors
7. National Book Week in South Africa – 1st week of September: Example: National Book Week South Africa
8. National Buy a Book Day – 7 September
9. Nobel Prize in Literature (& any other important prizes): Example: 13 Female Nobel Laureates In Literature
10. Oscars and Golden Globes – especially if books are nominated: Example: Based On The Book By
11. Punctuation Day – 24 September: Example: Punctuation For Beginners: What Is Punctuation?
12. Roald Dahl Day – 13 September: Example: 5 Quite Interesting Facts About Roald Dahl
13. Short Story Day – 21 December
14. Short Story Day Africa – 21 June
15. The Ides of March – 15 March: Example: The Ides of March – What Does It Mean?
16. Winnie The Pooh Day – 18 January
17. World Book Day: Example: International Day Of The Book – 23 April – William Shakespeare’s Birthday
18. World Poetry Day – 21 March
19. World Social Media Day – 30 June

General Holidays

1. April Fool’s Day – 1 April
2. Thanksgiving – November: Example: 10 Perfect Writing Prompts For Thanksgiving
3. Black Friday – October
4. Christmas – 25 December
5. Father’s Day – June: Example: 15 Fascinating Fathers From Fiction or Father’s Day Writing Prompt
6. Halloween – 31 October: Example: 10 Ways To Kick-Start Your Horror Story At Halloween
7. May Day – 1 May
8. Mother’s Day – May: Example: The 15 Most Memorable Mothers in Literature or Mother’s Day Writing Prompt
9. New Year’s Day – 1 January
10. St. Patrick’s Day – 17 March
11. Valentine’s Day – 14 February: Examples: 10 Perfect Literary Dates For Valentine’s Day or 12 Literary Couples Whose Love Will Last

Seasons

1. Spring
2. Summer
3. Autumn
4. Winter

Miscellaneous Days

Remember that you can use any day that appeals to you and your audience.

1. All Saint’s Day – 1 November
2. Friday the 13th
3. International Cat Day – 8 August: Example: 30 (or so) Famous Fictional Cats
4. International Coffee Day – 29 September: Example: The Top 10 Quotes About Coffee
5. International Tea Day – 15 December: Example: 12 Literary Quotes About Tea
6. Earth Day – 22 April
7. International Women’s Day – 8 March
8. Star Wars Day – 4 May

Public Holidays Worldwide

Use this calendar if you need to know holidays around the world: 2026 Calendar of Public Holidays

Useful Calendars

If you’re looking for ideas for days that might be of interest to your audience, use this useful calendar:

1. January
2. February
3. March
4. April
5. May
6. June
7. July
8. August
9. September
10. October
11. November
12. December

Calendar Templates

Download a free calendar template – or use your outlook or google calendar – to fill up the days that you may want to use.

Download your copy here: Free Monthly Calendar Template

by Amanda Patterson

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