Beginner Editorial Calendar Template

An editorial calendar is a road map for your blogging or social marketing. It's a plan of attack, a game plan, a plot, a method - whatever word works for your brain, an editorial calendar is a really easy way to organize your posts and stay accountable to those posts!

In this post, I'm going to talk about editorial calendars for blogging: you don't even really need to a calendar to have an editorial calendar. This little formula is one of the easiest ways to build one.

Step 1: Pick 6 broad subjects - below are some examples. You can substitute in any subject matter, whether it's about your hobbies, your passion or your business. 

• Music
• Movies
• Fitness
• Books
• Quotes
• Photography 

Step 2: Pick a day of the week that is usually quieter than other days, like Tuesday afternoons

Every Tuesday afternoon, you're going to write a blog based on your content for that week. 

• Week One: Music
• Week Two: Movies
• Week Three: Fitness
• Week Four: Books
• Week Five: Quotes
• Week Six: Photography
• REPEAT!

And voila! You've got your first editorial calendar! For the first six months, stick with one post a week until you really get into the rhythm of posting regularly. It's a marathon - not a sprint. You don't want to post 15 blogs in 4 days and then get burnout and your blog goes silent for 3 months.