I was trying to decide whether ’tis better to blog about something just for the sake of blogging regularly, even when one has nothing of great interest about which to blog.
Then I skimmed through my archives for inspiration, and realised that’s what I’ve been doing most days anyway.
Anyway, the thing is, I’ve been very busy preparing things for my youth group, women’s group and various other things, not to mention job-hunting and, oh yes, actually going to work. Plus, somewhere in the middle of all that, I’ve had to find time to be with my friends, talk on the phone and by email to far-off friends, and also do things like eat, sleep and breathe. Blogging is a very enjoyable pastime, but one that quickly becomes incredibly frustrating when, for example, you find yourself with a spare half hour of a morning, and can’t think of a single witty, thought-provoking or otherwise entertaining thing to blog about.
So, here’s the deal. You’re going to inspire me. Yes, you, right there. When I get home from work today, I want the comments section of this post to be packed full of interesting suggestions for a blog topic. Is there a mystery you’ve been pondering, and you think I might have an opinion (e.g. the sock issue)? Is there a serious issue on your mind, one that I could attempt to analyse (and amusingly miss the point entirely)? Is there something you want to know about me, like my true feelings for Dirk? Or would you even care to pick a random word or phrase followed by the word ‘discuss’, in the style of school essays?
It’s up to you. The next blog post is all yours. I’m making myself very vulnerable with this request, because I risk coming home to an empty comments box and dealing with the crushing realisation that no one cares. I’m appealing to you, the public, for inspiration. Throw me a lifeline.
You know I’d do the same for you, if you lost your muse…
Filed under: blogging
Stick a pin in your Blogroll. Open the one your pin has landed on, now take the fourth sentence from it and away you go!
In anticipation…..
Grab a book, any book.
Open at random.
List the first five words or phrases that are suitable for opinionating on.
Opinionate on them.
Daniel O’Donnell. Why?
How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?
I described a mouse as being brown in colour. Pale brown. I have just had the amazing revelation that the colour should really have been referred to as “Mousey brown”!! That took me 6 days to realise.
Thats not a blog subject, just a random thought.
Subject is – Will Robbie show up at the Take That concert on the 11th and if he does how many tears will I shed? Also, how excited are you, that you get to drool over Mark in another 16days?
Write a short essay entitled ‘My First Day At School’.
haha see when u don’t have a blog topic if you rant about how you have nothing to say it soon becomes a blog topic!!! i have done this many times!!!
Tell us what you think about 80′s music, footwear, different brands of orange juice, karaoke and them colorful clog things that people are wearing these days!!!
thats footwear twice!! ooooops!
a great topic would be how wonderfully you and th are getting along. and how you never want her to leave…
and how you have kat back because th brought another cat into the house and now kat hates her. alot.
I want to know about the Kat/cat thing – now. Please.
Also am intrigued that there may be some interesting feelings for Dirk to discuss.
Thanks.
Weather.
One can always talk about weather. And health.
You could write about why your lexis is getting progressively more American with every blog entry (with the possible exception of this one).
Or, you could describe a day at work, using the semantic field of…erm…gardening.
Whip yerself over to Baino’s blog for her tag on ‘Eight rules to live by’. I’ll be robbing that as soon as I find time to do anything other than scratch my bum.
Was predestination a doomed failure from the start? There’ll need to be lots of Bible verses used in answering/blogging about this and they should be in either Hebrew or Greek, none of this newly fangled King James English
Hi Hails,
I really wanted to inspire you but can’t think of anything, except why do children no longer flock to hear of my wisdom, rather now they ask a question that I’ve just answered-am so frustrated!
Wow…. thank you all for your input. You have each contributed to keeping my blog alive. I was trying to pick one of these to write about, and realised I wanted to do all of them (with the possible exception of CyberScribe’s). So that’s what I’m going to do! I will work my way down the list when I come to a “dry day”, inspiration-wise. It’s gonna be fun, my friends…
ahem…i’d actually like to know about your true feelings for dirk.
Wouldn’t you just…
…..
…..
Well…
….
….I feel that he could use a haircut sometime soon.
Other than that, it’s all pretty much out there. Sorry to disappoint. “Prove it!!”
An alternative to my previous suggestion is ‘My Top Ten’ the songs and the stories behind them.Write it as though it was going to appear on a local newspaper and you never know it just might