Dear ,
How is your editorial calendar coming?
I was thinking about you today, and wondering if it was stressing you out. Or if you were simply pretending it didn't exist.
Or some other form of resistance was occurring.
Some folks really take to the editorial calendar like a fish to water. Others find it more difficult. If that's you, don't worry.
Sometimes what you have to do is really make it your own. When I first started working with an editorial calendar, I downloaded, bought, stole, and otherwise procured many different templates and prototypes. I kept thinking that I needed to find the perfect one in order to make it work for me.
It turned out, that what I needed wasn't to find the perfect editorial calendar, but manifest the perfect editorial calendar for me. I needed to turn it into an act of creation. The ironic thing is, that when I finally did turn it
into an act of creation and made it my own, what turned out to be perfect for me was far more chaotic, messy, and wild-looking then all of the beautiful templates I been so obsessed with.
In fact, my perfect editorial calendar looks like this: