Psst...I'm not here here, you know

I am amazed I have managed to pull this off, but I have been away on holiday (out of the country) for over a week now, and this post was written 2 weeks ago.

September 29, 2025

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Hey!

So, one thing that people say about content creation of any kind, is that batch content is a lifesaver. And I have been fighting for my life with this concept. Especially since my family takes a yearly holiday around September, and I normally fall off the wagon for 6 weeks. So, here are is an insight to me and content creation for this blog, newsletter and the accompanying social media.

At this moment I don’t know if I am getting blue hair on my trip, but I’m definitely capturing to post when I’m back

1. How I create my content

Mon

Tues

Wed

Thurs

Fri - Sun

AM

Edit (or write scripts) on the bus to work

Edit (or write scripts) on the bus to work

Edit (or write scripts) on the bus to work

Edit (or write scripts) on the bus to work

Hope that I write the blog for the week

PM

Write the blog that I didn’t write on the weekend

Add images to blog and schedule for 7pm

Doom scroll for trends and ideas for next weeks videos

Take it easy, or if I have energy, start filming videos for next week

Dedicate 6 hrs over the 3 days to create 1 newsletter and up to 6 social media posts and schedule

And that is my ideal week. So far, that has only happened the last 4 weeks (ignoring the fact I am currently on holiday, so the content until next week, was created at the beginning of September).

2. How I have made content creation feel easier

  • AI: I don’t like using AI that much, because environmentally it’s not great. But I am creating a lot of content by myself, and I am not talented in art, so I am using AI for the images in my newsletter and occasionally in my blog.

  • I purge my phone and Google photos memory at least twice a week: One time I permanently deleted a video I needed, and I was devastated. So, I frequently try to back up everything during the week onto my external hard drive.

  • I learnt to edit on my laptop: This is easier because I purge onto my hard drive, so I naturally copy files to Capcut from the hard drive. But also, sometimes it’s hard to edit on your phone screen. I need a full iPad but I don’t have that kind of money. So, where I can, I happily edit on my laptop. Along with Capcut, I have also learnt how to code with DaVinci Resolve, but my laptop can’t handle it, so it’s a back up skill, for a more powerful laptop in my future.

  • Scheduling content: Like I mentioned, I don’t manually post my content. Scheduling is the future, and I have a job to pay my bills, since this is not making me money yet. IG has its own internal scheduling in the app. TikTok I had to download TikTok Studio which has the scheduling function. And YouTube has it’s own internal scheduling. The newsletter and blog platforms I schedule as well. So, it’s very handy

3. What I find hard about creating content

  • Thinking of new ideas: Sometimes even googling about what other people are struggle with in adulting, does not spark anything in my creative brain. At that point, I choose to doom scroll and see what random people post and see if I land on idea or a trend I can hop on. (defo hopping on trends a good 2 weeks after they were trending)

  • The time to create: This is still a work in progress, but I use 6 hours over an empty weekend to write a newsletter and create up to 6 social media posts (from scratch). However, lately I have been better, and I have found pockets of time, whilst commuting to work to edit videos, or write scripts for them, which is making my life a little easier.

  • The fear: If you scroll to the start of my IG or the first 12 months of blogs, you will see some amazingly cringey content, and I was petrified of posting all of it. Honestly, I didn’t start feeling confident until April 2025, when I had finished a challenge of posting every day for 40 days. And even now, there are some posts that I have done a lot of editing on, and I still feel like ‘Oh I don’t think I want to post this anymore’. But I still do, because I don’t want to make another. 🤣

  • The tools: There are so many things out there that are targeted for content creators, to ‘make it better/easier for us to post’, and I can easily convince myself that I need it to post. I don’t. I film on my iPhone, I edit on free Capcut, either on my laptop or my phone. I use a ring light from Aldi, but if I can’t be bothered to move it, I use my flash on my phone. I have a tripod from amazon. And I only purchased a second hand apple watch, in Aug 2024, for the camera mirror function.

So, that’s an insight into my chaotic content creation. But I honestly enjoy it. I think it’s because it’s so different to my 9-5. It’s a creative outlet, that I use to release steam and it’s a digital record of my adulting journey. I have grown a lot since I started this way back in Jan 2022. And I really can’t wait to see, how things change for me in the future.

I’ll chat to you when I fully return to office. For now, I’m enjoying my sun 😎

Rue, out✌🏾

Adulting For Life