Busting blogger’s block: 10 ways to blog when you don’t feel like blogging

Looking for fresh, new blogging ideas?

Working in Words now offers a 10-part series of practical, creative, and fun ways to find that lost muse, overcome blogging burnout, and inject new ideas into a tired blog.

Here’s the whole series:

• Busting blogger’s block: Catch a cartoon
• Busting blogger’s block: Find a photo
• Busting blogger’s block: Holler a holiday greeting
• Busting blogger’s block: Jump in with a joke, or tell a tale
• Busting blogger’s block: Line up a list
• Busting blogger’s block: Offer an award or make it a meme
• Busting blogger’s block: Pick a poem, or cite a statement
• Busting blogger’s block: Rein in a roundup 
• Busting blogger’s block: Start with a survey
• Busting blogger’s block: Vote for a video

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Busting blogger’s block: Holler a holiday greeting

10 ways to blog when you don’t feel like blogging

10. Build a blog post around an upcoming occasion.

Who doesn’t love holidays?

From New Year’s Day to New Year’s Eve, and all in-between, the entire year is filled with reasons to celebrate. Faith-based holidays, legal days-off, health issue awareness days, foodie holidays, and other red-letter days can provide fabulous fodder for bloggers.

Look at a calendar. What days to come might spark your blogging creativity?

You might post related crafts, decorating how-to’s, recipes, or traditions. Journal your own holiday memories, Or, simply put up a cheery greeting for your readers. Add a suitable drawing or photo, if you wish.

Boom! Another blog post.

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• Inviting Imagination: 30 days of thankfulness 
• Sometimes “special” is overrated
• Tips for Holiday Tipping
• Who needs a holiday to bake peanut butter cookie recipes? 

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Busting blogger’s block: Offer an award or make it a meme

10 ways to blog when you don’t feel like blogging

9. Pass out a prize, or call out some questions.

Blog awards are popular, as a means of recognizing creative work and reaching out to new cyber-connections. Some prizes are highly respected, offered by well-known organizations.

Others may be developed on-the-spot by motivated bloggers, hoping to network with like-minded folks. In such cases, those receiving awards are instructed to post the prize graphics on their own sites and then present the same virtual token to several other worthy blogs.

It almost matters not. The point, after all, is to build ties with fellow writers and potential readers.

Memes employ a similar methodology.

The initiator comes up with a question, a thought-provoking subject, a photo, a keyword prompt, a controversial quote, or another springboard that is intended to draw responses.

Then folks put up their answers (along with the questions and link-backs to the meme site), urging readers to follow suit.

Both blog awards and memes present a “tag, you’re it” alert from one blogger to a handful of others, who then may pass the concept along. The idea is something akin to a friendly pass-it-on letter or email one might receive, except these tactics work their magic from one blog to another … and another … and so on.

Check out these sample blog posts focusing on awards (given or received) and get-to-know-you questions.

• 33 Questions: Asked and Answered
• Acrostic Only Award: for Praise the Lord 
• Becoming Acquainted: 50 Quick Questions 
• Honest Scrap Award: The Mane Point 
• Kreativ Bloggers and Kool Kids 
• Poet of the Month Award: Best Acrostic 
• Reality Check: 41 Questions for Grownups

What sorts of prized blogging ideas do you now possess?

Have you recently received a blogging award, and is it time to pass it along to others? Or would you like to develop your own? On what criteria?

Or, do you have a bunch of icebreaker-type questions you might work into a meme-style post? Why not tag a few friends, or leave linked comments on their blogs, asking them to respond to your queries?

Hey, pass it on!

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Busting blogger’s block: Vote for a video

10 ways to blog when you don’t feel like blogging

8. Build a blog post around a remarkable or refreshing video.

Fine or funny footage can sometimes fend off the worst writer’s block. Lost that blogging mojo? Watch a few online videos, sorted on a topic you like, and see what happens.

Whether your blog’s about baking or biking, climbing or cloning, poetry or photography, fashion or fast cars, you can probably find videos that intrigue you … and likely, your readers as well.

Search for videos on public sharing sites like DailyMotion, Metacafe, and Vimeo. Upload your own video to a store-and-share site, such as Photobucket or Shutterfly.

Just select the online video you want. Copy the code, and paste it into a blog post. Add your own commentary, and you’re ready to publish.

Here are a few examples of blog posts that are built around shared videos.

• Best beware of ‘Dumb Ways to Die’ ... or die laughing
• Does your horse stand still for mounting?
• Gotta love Sesame Street's GLEEful letter G skit
• Martin Short shows grace at Kathie Lee's dead-wife faux pas
• Movie trailer remix begs the question: Who's afraid of Mrs. Doubtfire?
• Rappin' up parenthood still schools moms and dads with humor
• Rockin' Fun with ‘The Funky Pony’

Ready to blog? (Roll tape.)

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