I've been having writer's block these last few days. Nothing like going back to work to suck all the inspiration out of your life! HA! So I came up with this list of things to blog about when you may be stuck. Perhaps I should take my own advice but I had more fun making this list :)Hey, there's #1: make your own list of things to blog about when you don't know what to blog about!
Favorites
-favorite foods
-favorite desserts
-favorite books/writers
-favorite toy as a kid
-favorite movie
-favorite music
-favorite photos from flickr/pinterest/tumblr
-favorite links/blogs you've come across recently
-favorite etsy items
-favorite tv show
-favorite quotes
-favorite beauty products
-favorite season
-favorite holiday
Home/Personal Life
-your pet
-your family
-how you met your spouse/significant other
-what you did last weekend
-what you are going to do next weekend
-a tour of your home
-your garden
-your daily routine
-hair styles you want to try
-makeup tips
-any collections you have
-make a slideshow
-a list of things you'd like to accomplish in life
-your dream job
-your job/work related things
-trips and vacations you've gone on
-trips and vacations you want to go on
-any hidden talents
-happiest moment of your life
-crappiest moment of your life
-funniest moment of your life
Crafts
-any craft projects your working on
-any craft projects you want to start working on
-DIY projects
-a tutorial by you
-a tutorial you found helpful
-craft disasters (didn't turn out right)
-a pattern you've made
-participate in a craft swap or trade
-other crafty people in your family
Etsy
-etsy items that fit a certain theme (birthday, dogs, embroidery, etc)
-recent etsy purchases
-shops that you frequently visit
-shops that are new and cool
-treasuries you've made
-treasuries you are in
-what you'd like to see on the front page
-interview a favorite seller
-what's in your favorites list
Blog related
-blog milestones (100 followers, 1000 followers, 1 year of blogging, etc)
-participate in challenges or prompts (30 days of lists, radvent, project 52, 30 before 30, etc)
-make up your own challenges or prompts
-giveaways you've entered
-host a giveaway yourself
-show your blog's different layouts/headers
-write an honest review on something you want to share with others
-share where you've written a guest post
-ask someone else to do a guest post on your blog
-share some of your favorite bloggers
Misc.
-deals/coupon codes from the web
-random thoughts/ideas
-pictures you've taken. you can never have too many pictures :)
-what do you want to be when you grow up?
-write a letter to your older self
-write a letter to your younger self
Add to the list in a comment!
whoa this is a great list!! a lot of times i do feel stuck in a rut and am not sure what to blog about it!! it's hard when u want to blog almost every day too!!
ReplyDeleteGreat list! I had just tweeted last night asking for recommendations for ideas/prompts for blog writing, and this is perfect! You read my mind.
ReplyDelete- Mandi
www.lifeinbeta.com
oh, great ideas...thanks!
ReplyDeleteThis list is VERY helpful : )
ReplyDeleteawesome list!!! one of my ideas would be a post of older photos. i really like younger pictures of people's grandparents, parents or of themselves as kids. I did one not too long ago and it was really fun!
ReplyDeletehttp://tattoodhousewife.blogspot.com/2011/06/young-ones.html
I have tons of backups for road block days. It's a great go-to
ReplyDeleteShasie
Live Life in Style
Great list. I love lists. I might use a few of these. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteMan this is a good list! I'm going to have to lurk this on all the days I have writers block. Which is every day. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat list! I might have to refer to it in the future.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I LOVE your desktop background. Is that a freebie from somewhere?
What a great list!
ReplyDeleteI love this list! It definitely got me thinking of some things I could write about! Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic list! I was just feeling a bit of a writers block coming on, this will certainly help! Thanks for sharing, and hope your writer's block ends soon too!
ReplyDeleteGreat list! Thanks for sharing! I'm having these moments (writer's block) from time to time and this list will come so handy!
ReplyDeleteWow thanks for sharing! that is a great list! Good luck on your new job ;)
ReplyDeleteYou seem to be quite productive when making lists! Thanks for your efforts :)
ReplyDeleteI've been having to do these too... writers block sucks.
ReplyDeleteThe one that I was toying with the other night but never posted was the 30 day Disney meme. so 30 fave disney characters/movies/moments in 30 days
Just mentioned this post on my post... this has really helped! Thank you so much & you have a wonderful blog! xo
ReplyDeleteWow, now I got so much more to blog about. Great posting! Thanks for doing all the thinking for us!
ReplyDeleteI'm totally bookmarking this post, it's great!
ReplyDeleteThis makes me feel kind of stupid for complaining about not knowing what to blog about... haha
thanks for posting!
xoxo
Wow, this is an amazing list... I totally need to schedule a handful of blogposts for during my maternity leave, and I was pretty clueless about what the heck I was going to write about. Ideas are flowing now... Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteagh! i totally love your for this :) & the compy background is so pretty.
ReplyDeleteAwesome blog you have! Love this list!! I find myself making a list of things to blog about all the time :)
ReplyDeleteLove your list of things here!! Great idea!
ReplyDeleteSaving this for when I run out of things to talk about. ;)
ReplyDeleteYou have just helped me and many other people on Etsy :D I do have one question though: what's the right way to approach people to ask them to do guest posts? I know that if I were to just create a thread in some forum I'd get a lot of poor writers begging to do it, but not as many good ones, if any at all. I want it well written, and I want honest opinions from them. But I'm always too shy to ask the people I really want to. My blog is really small and here I am reading your blog and other similar ones - would anyone from such a successful blog really be happy to write a guest post for such a small one?
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