By: Chris Gardner. Photo By: Tiago Fernandes

I created the 2013 editorial calendar for Curbly.com during a week in November 2012. It was cold outside, got dark at 5:00p, and the world was preparing itself to go into a long winter’s nap. Over that week, my assistant editor and I updated our daily publishing times, our weekly schedule, and the monthly themes that we’d used for inspiration and motivation for our original content pieces and project for the whole of this year. We roughed out items on the calendar, penciling in ideas for what we thought might work well over the next twelve months. A new year was about to begin, and it was exciting to have a fresh start, and get started on our new serieses and posts and projects.