Up until this point, this blog has been random thoughts that have come into my mind. The problem is, random thoughts come at random times. You can't force random thoughts, trust me, I've tried that.
In order for any action to be consistent, there needs to be some structure. When you go to soccer practice, you don't just spend 2 hours doing whatever you feel like working on, that will only get you so far. There need to be an organized routine you follow if you want to see results. Its the same way with blogging or just about anything that you want to get better at. You can't go to the gym and just pick random machines and do them. Instead of making progress, you'll only be feeding your ego. Telling yourself look at me I'm doing all these machines.
Looking at Casey Neistat's vlog has been a huge inspiration for me as a filmmaker and I think i can take a lesson from his vlog structure for my blog. When Casey was making a vlog daily, he had a routine he'd follow. This not only made it easier for him in terms of content creation because it gave him a guideline, but it also made it more fun for us as the viewers. Casey's vlogging content structure is a bit like this. When he's traveling, it'll be awesome shots of the places he's seeing and people he's meeting and the type of things he's doing. When he's in NYC, the structure is a bit more apparent. For the most part, Casey tries to take you through his day and tries to tell a new story every day. When he's extra busy or can't think of what to do, he defaults to this: Answer questions, go through his mail, or talk straight to the audience about something that is on his mind. Every once in a while he will change it up and throw in a sweet viral video or an awesome inspirational video.
Talking straight to the audience about something that is on his mind
Random Awesome inspirational video
Mailtime
For this blog, I need to figure out some sort of structure. It does not have to be as rock solid as every Monday I do this, every Tuesday is this, so on and so forth. But at the very minimum there needs to be a solid well of backup format that I can use when the ideas are not flowing. Need to make it easy to be consistent.