When I launched tshirtreviewblog.com at the beginning of the year, there have been a number of little things I’ve been meaning to do since then. I spoke a bit about “get it out there and tweak it” in this blog’s first post, and I’m finally putting that into practice.

The last week or so has kept me pretty busy solidifying tshirtreviewblog.com in a few different ways. I have quite a bit more to go between now and this weekend (my arbitrary deadline) but things are coming along alright. Many changes are behind the scenes, but it’s worth a look nevertheless.

One important thing I’ve noticed though is that I’m finding is my groove. It’s my procedure every day; the things I have to go through to generate the best content I can and make sure I’m in the loop on everything. I’ve got to see what’s new, I’ve got to see what others are writing about. I’m an obsessive stats checker, so that’s of course part of the routine. I need to find out where my traffic’s coming from, why some things are getting a larger response than others, etc.

A lot of this is old news I’m sure to those of you that are veterans, but it’s new to me. The biggest thing I can suggest to anyone in my position though is to read. Nothing helps me stay in the right frame of mind and make correct decisions more than absorbing as much outside information as possible. Read everything you can on your given topic, but read completely unrelated sites and blogs as well. Finding someone’s archives, and determining how they’ve developed their “voice” and their outlook over time has been particularly helpful.

I find that once housekeeping tasks are out of the way (checking servers, email, stats and traffic, checking for comments, etc.) that my time breaks down to something like 70% reading and 30% writing, roughly. This may of course change over time, but that seems to be where I’m at right now. Does anyone have any similar experiences?