Blogging tasks to do when you don’t want to write a new blog post

Create & schedule Pins

Pinterest is a visual search engine where you can upload graphics representing your blog posts and link to your blog posts.

Pinterest users will save and/or visit the Pins that appeal to them.

Once Pinterest knows you’re legit and not spamming the platform, your Pins are shown to more relevant users, thereby boosting your blog traffic.

To help the algorithm know you’re not a spammer, create and schedule a few Pins a week, for several weeks.

I create and schedule my Pins in Canva.

These are my Pinterest stats from the last 90 days, May-August 2025. I stopped Pinning regularly in July due to work stress.

Starting out, the Pins don’t feel like they’re doing anything. However, I Pinned two older posts and they BOTH have been revived now!

One of those posts have been in my top 10 most-visited posts for the past two months.

So this is officially a task I’ve started doing. I create Pins in bulk and schedule them in bulk (batching).

Update posts with internal links

My inbound linking game has slipped.

I’ve no problem adding internal links on my new blog…because it’s new!

This blog has 800+ posts, though, so it’s a bother.

To combat this, I’ve been looking over my newer posts, clicking through to internal links, and updating those posts with links to the linked posts and any other relevant posts.

Is it perfect? Not literally, but it is in the bigger picture sense because it’s progress.

Create or add to an evergreen sequence

An evergreen email sequence works long-term, either for a limited or unlimited time.

One sequence runs perpetually — that is, until I’m tired of it — delivering one evergreen blogging tip each week.

For other topics, I’m opting for a limited approach: 12-52 weeks of emails in the sequence, directing subscribers to blog posts.

Ideally, each lifestyle subscriber will hop onto another evergreen sequence before their initial track ends. That way, they’re still subscribed and engaging with my email and blog content.

Of course, there’s a tradeoff/alternative: weekly RSS digests of all my blog content. This is what you receive if you subscribe via the form at the end of my blog posts.

It looks like this:

Kinda like a Substack, but on my own platform and not someone else’s.

I do all of this in Kit, formerly Convertkit, which I should probably write a review for because I used to despise them.

Brainstorm & plan new content

Today, I didn’t feel like writing blog posts.

Instead, I brainstormed what content could go into autism, DID and neurodiversity evergreen email sequences.

I created email templates and snippets in Kit in preparation for these sequences so they’ll be ready when I start working on them.

I also brainstormed deep cluster blog post ideas I could publish based on

• what I know
• what is relevant to my email sequences
• what my audience seems most interested in
• what I find others are hiding behind a paywall that could really boost people’s lives if it were more accessible.

Rest

I know it seems like an overrated copout, but rest is necessary.

Yesterday, I saw a trailer on Netflix for Locke & Key and started watching it without fully understanding what it would be about.

Today, I hit season three and decided to stop because I need to sleep and waiting gives me something to look forward to tomorrow after work.

When I don’t rest, I can’t do anything on my blog. And that’s bad, because I need to work on my blog.

I know this place looks like your basic lifestyle blog, but it’s also a business that is going to take care of me one day.

Before my blog can take care of me when I am sick with COVID, I have to take care of my blog by setting up sustainable systems that don’t fall apart when I need time off.

To do that, I do have to rest. Blogging requires a lot of emotional labor, which usually means a large cognitive load, which is exhausting.

Yet…it’s also the dream.

Hope this list helps you like these tasks help me!