busy1) Periodically ask your audience what topics they enjoy most, and keep a list of those. Look at it when you need inspiration.
2) Figure out your main themes. For each theme, come up with one or more questions that can be repeated periodically. Also think of repeatable maintenance tasks. Jot those on a desk calendar, starting with the day your LJ gets the most traffic. Mine are mostly on Mondays, and I do things like checking my LJ statistics and pimping friends' journals for networking.
crowdfunding has prompts about CFC projects; gore_challenge has prompts asking what people are doing with green energy, etc.3) Subscribe to some feeds on topics you like. Copy a link and then give your personal take on that article.
4) Link clouds are great fun. Summarize a topic and collect links on various aspects of it. These are among my most popular posts.
5) Watch your email and other writings for long discussions or explanations of things. These can be saved and turned into essay posts, another hit format.
August 10 2008, 02:52:25 UTC 12 years ago
*bow, flourish*
August 10 2008, 02:55:17 UTC 12 years ago