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Not A Single Blog Idea In My Head!

by Anne Wayman on March 13th, 2008

No clue why, but this morning I don’t seem to have a single idea for a blog in my head… except this one. You know, the old write-about-the-idea-of-having no-ideas trick. All professional writers can come up with this one when they get well and truly stuck.

And why am I mostly idea less this morning? Who knows, and I’m not even sure I care much at the moment. Because I have a couple of secret weapons. The first is my ever present list of blog ideas. This is a simple word file that lives on my desktop. Currently there are 39 ideas listed there, about 2/3 of which I’ve already written about at one point or another. When I do write about one, I strike through it so I know I’ve done a blog, but so I can also read it. I’ve found many topics can be done over and over again, and some spark additional ideas.

My other secret weapon is a feed reader. I use FeedReader3, which is free and dirt simple. When I start the program (I know, some people leave their readers on all the time.), it populates itself with the blogs I’ve chosen and their most recent headlines. I’ve got enough blogs in there to be sure to find at least on topic anytime I look.

As I’ve been known to say, “ideas are truly everywhere.”

Where do you get your writing ideas?

Write well and often,

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