Don’t Write First Drafts in WordPress

I suggest you not draft your posts in WordPress.  It’s just too slow.  Also, by drafting them offline, you have a backup copy saved just in case your site goes down.  Draft the title, think of the categories, and write the content offline—in MS Word, OneNote, or Evernote—then move them up when they are finished.

You will be a lot more efficient this way, and avoid those instances where you spend 30 minutes or more drafting directly in WordPress only to find that your internet connection dropped and you lost all your content.

The exception to the above would be the very brief (like three-sentence) post.  Even then, though, you might want to have an offline copy in case disaster strikes, your website goes down, and your backups aren’t working….