Edit: If you really want to know how I’ll be doing updates, check the Schedule page. This post was written before I wrote the condensed version.
It’s become clear that I need to reconsider my schedule.
At first I was set on updating once a week. I could afford to make something and write about it every week, right? Even if I ended up spending more than I really needed before the next paycheck and having to subsist on ramen and rice. What about finding new material to cover? There are thousands of movies, fanfics, books, videos, and other media for the reviewing, but maybe only a handful that I’d actually enjoy reviewing.
Long story short, there are going to be some changes to my schedule.
No more 1st and 15th updates. They fall on different days of the week every month, and it seems that when I’ve finished a recipe, the review-recipe post is just days away. It’s starting to cause some stress, and a hobby this dumb and fun shouldn’t cause any stress at all.
But since I enjoy the idea so much, I’ll provide a review and/or recipe every July 15th for however long this blog keeps up. I should be the one getting gifts, but this is my little gift to you, readers.
I’ll be updating in batches. For example, let’s say I find a movie I absolutely need to cover. Didilly Bumpus and the Magical Mangoes is a fantasy adventure children’s movie that runs about 120 minutes (it’s also something I just came up with, so don’t go looking for it). I decide to cut it up into eight parts: the introduction, parts one through six of the actual review, then the “cleanup” article where I do administrative details, insights, whatever. These will run for eight weeks. After this ordeal is done, I’ll be doing two recipes a month while preparing the next batch, which is a six-parter My Little Pony fanfic called On a Wing and a Prayer: A Discord and Pinkie Pie Romance (that probably does exist). It takes me three months to find or create recipes for these six parts, during which you’ll get six recipes I’ll find from cookbooks, blogs, magazines, and videos. Then the six-parter. Then the recipes. On and on.
I’ll be continuing this Draco Trilogy installment as I’d planned before implementing these changes. I’m a bit OCD, and having the review-recipe-review pattern cut up with review-review-review will eat on my nerves. (Yes, I realize that not everything between reviews is a recipe. Hush.)
This feels more doable than trying to find something to prepare and write every week. I honestly don’t understand how full-time bloggers and YouTubers do it.
