"Are You Feeling a 'Draft' in Here?" - Blog Tips for Rain Drips

The draft feature is great.  I use it for my website blog and ActiveRain all the time.  It lets me jot down a few lines when I have inspiration for an article as you said, or write up an article and save it for posting at an appropriate time.

HI Rich - I appreciate the auto-draft feature so if I get bumped offline I don't lose everything I've done, but I have noticed that if I take awhile to finish a particularly lengthy post, it shows as having been posted at the time it was first saved as a draft, instead of the time I post it publicly.  This means that I will get fewer readers and comments because it doesn't show up on the first page of blogs.  It goes immediately to a back page with older posts. 

I think some of my posts never get seen by many, and those who find it are ones who come to my blog for the Wordless Wednesday and then stay to look at a few other posts.  Maybe it's just me who thinks they're good posts.  Consequently, I seem to feel more secure if I draft longer posts on Word and then copy into AR and just format and add photos, etc on AR.

Until your new draft feature, i must have lost over 10 posts. One of the reasons I probably hadn't blogged last year as much as I could have. I love the new feature and thanks for it!

Gracious...

I haven't read the comments so forgive me if someone has already brought up my question.

When I save my posts in draft they are posted on the day I saved them. Let's say I started a post on Jan. 16. I finish writing the post on Jan 20. When I take the post out of draft the post date is Jan 16. Has that been an issue for anyone else?

TLW...ROAR!

Rich,

My biggest complaint and the reason I don't use it is the problem of when it's published that you discussed above.  Also, it would be nice if we could change font color and size without having to go to HTML.

I have a terrible time remembering that I have junk in draft...  Aside from that, it is a great tool. 

I quite often get into a writing mood during the weekends when all the sports are on. The problem that I have with the ActiveRain draft mode is that the drafts keep getting pushed to the bottom as I comment. If I do 30 comments each day, those drafts can be a few billion scrolls away. So I use Word to do all my drafts and then paste it into ActiveRain, at which point I use the draft mode to insert pictures and make sure everything looks good.

Thanks for the information on draft. I do forget about it!

I haven't tried the draft feature.  I just usually work in word and then cut and paste.  It has always worked in the past, but I haven't been around recently.  Does that still work with the new website?

I use the draft feature a lot.  I had never noticed that the date was when I created the draft not when it was published; probably because I have never kept a post in draft longer than one day.

If you kept a post in draft for several days and then published it, where would it appear in the chronology of your posts?  Would it be back in the list of old posts if that was when it was first started?

Rich, Thanks again for the great tip!  I'm a newbie here and was wondering how to do that.

LOL.  I knew about the draft feature, but I couldn't figure out how to use it.  DUH.  You might actually be a cool person.  A 24 fan and a Galaxy Quest quote.  My favorite line "The maching always stops at 1"

I just recently figured out the draft feature when learning to post a you tube video on AR.  I've only been blogging here for a few months, but what a relief.  Now I use it for a multitude of things.

Wow...was wondering how to get back to the drafts...thanks!  Can't believe I didn't realize that.

Ahhhh, I just did a search on how to do this as a Website I intend to add a link back to is currently down and I don't want to publish the blog until I'm sure whatever the problem is is fixed.  The Website is our Local Newspaper's and this is rare that it has problems.

So, thanks so much for this "oldie but goodie" blog I am now comfortable for stashing it in "DRAFT" and coming back later.

Sue of Robin and Sue

Yay! I've been trying to figure this out for months! :-) Thanks!!

Thank you - I did a search to find out this information and you had it all laid out for me.