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Improvement to posting workflow

Took me a while to cotton on to this, but adjusting my posting workflow slightly has made a big difference to the time taken to publish a blog post.

Pasting content into Blogger's WYSIWYG interface [Compose], which just for the text so far results in this,

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<div style="margin: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Took me a while to cotton on to this, but adjusting my posting workflow slightly has made a big difference to the time taken to publish a </span><a href="http://blog.skullcinema.com/2018/12/eight-steps-to-blog-posting.html"><span style="font-family: &quot; font-size: 12.0pt;">blog post</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Pasting content into Blogger's WYSIWYG interface [</span><span style="font-family: &quot; font-size: 12.0pt;">Compose</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">], which just for the text so far results in this,</span></div>
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produces a lot of unnecessary code that requires clean up after completing the final draft.


Instead, pasting the first draft directly into the Blogger HTML interface [HTML] results in this,

Took me a while to cotton on to this, but adjusting my posting workflow slightly has made a big difference to the time taken to publish a blog post.

Pasting content into Blogger's WYSIWYG interface [Compose], which just for the text so far results in this,

which is so much cleaner. Even though most of the formatting and all of the links are lost, it is quicker to add them back in the Blogger interface than wade through the hot mess of extraneous HTML that the WYSIWYG interface adds.

Overall, it dramatically cuts down the amount of HTML clean up I have been doing at the end of drafting a post.
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