Here’s My Lifestyle Blog Pre-Publication Editorial Guidelines Checklist (Go Ahead and Steal These Ideas for Yourself)

As I finalized the headline, added photos and made the last few formatting updates to the latest post on my lifestyle blog, I paused. Did I go through my editorial guidelines checklist? Ah, I better do that quick to make sure this content aligns with what I want to put out there.

Yes, even the blogging I do for myself, on my websites, has parameters in place to ensure I’m putting out the type of content I’m proud to have my byline attached to each day.

This hasn’t always been the case.

I too have ridden the rollercoaster of pushing out posts to simply meet a calendar deadline, skipping quality checks along the way, and later feeling like I didn’t offer readers my best work. Done is better than perfect I’d tell myself. Sure, but quality triumphs quantity, any day of the week.

Over the years (almost 13 as a full-time business owner!) I’ve refined my content creation process and decided I needed one last tool to ensure I’ve metaphorically crossed my ‘t’s and dotted all the ‘i’s.

Today, I’m sharing this editorial guidelines checklist.

Perhaps it will inspire the writer in you to set up a similar list of checks and balances…