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Creating Content from Everyday Life

Do the ideas to write for your blog come easy to you? Sometimes there are a lot of ideas in your head but when you sit down to actually writing them down, the mind goes blank. We all know to write these ideas down as they enter our heads or imaginations, but I find it hard to carry a paper and pen with me at all times. How can you? I do not find it feasible although I have actually tried to keep a notebook with me but it looks odd and I do not want to look I am obsessed with my blog! Although sometimes I feel I am!!

So how can you remember those ideas? You can write them down if it works for you, but in my opinion, the easiest and the most interesting way to make posts is to transfer the ideas right out of your real life. The real life incidents and events can very eManCrushingFlowersasily give us fodder for our thoughts. For this kind of thing to work without remembering, all we need to do is to go through life with a little bit of awareness and better observation skills. I am almost certain that we can find more ideas this way than we will have time to write.

Some of the ideas can come right out of the magazines we read or the news that we feel interested in watching. As you are browsing through various magazines and reading them, think about how each news and article relates to your blog and its theme. Current News and events also reveal people’s behaviors and how they handle different situations. Staying current in your area of blogging will not only keep your blog fresh but also make you an expert in that area and more and more people would want to read you.

All bloggers surf the Internet, read numerous blogs every day. Its okay to read popular blogs but make sure you are not regurgitating the same content. Social directories and discussion forums are a good source of a lot of material. People are always asking questions in the discussion forums and one of the simplest ideas is to answer some of the questions in your post.

Pay attention to the conversations you have with your friends, family and co-workers and you’ll be surprised how many ideas can originate. Just before going to bed, a lot of us have experienced all day’s worth of events going through our heads all at once! You must have experienced it sometime? All these ideas are going to vanish by the morning but this is the time to simply jot down the idea in some shorthand to get back to it later in the morning! Of course for this to work, you don’t need to be carrying notebooks and pens around in public, and this should be the easiest of all methods to convert those ideas into great posts!

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laketrees

great post Pearl !!!!
real life seems to be the greatest inspiration for me…in fact we’re taking photos of the moon tonight…..looking over the ocean (from our balcony)
we’re hoping to get some great shots in about an hours time…..hopefully good enough to post on my blog :)

Mike Scott

For things that just pop into my head, I use a Hipster PDA, but I use index cards to divide the sections, and print paper from diyplanner.com for the pages.

Everything eventually finds its way into OneNote.

Great post.

pearl

@Laketrees – hey Kim that sounds like an exciting thing to do…. will be hopping over to your blog soon to see those pictures ….

@Mike… you are very organized!!!! I still have to try OneNote… although I shy away from anything I need to pay for ;) I have played around with diyplanner too sometime in the past…. but even that gets too cumbersome sometimes… so I go with good old method of keeping a simple notebook by the bedside….

pearl

may be thats the secret for your success Ken! :)

Ken Xu

You know, I’m always carrying a “notebook and pencil” around public. Even when queuing in the bank or somewhere, I bring other book to read and find inspiration from it. Geez… I’m just like a bookworm.
:)

Colin

Hi Pearl,
Another great post. I use my mobile phone and record any ideas that come to me when I’m out and about, whereas at home I have a pile of paper lol.
For me, it depends upon which blog I am working on, as my PC Security blog relies on precise information and tried and tested programs, whereas my Life blog can cover many facets.
Notes are still essential though, as thoughts and ideas can come and then get forgotten :)

pearl

Hey Colin… may be I need to start carrying some sort of portable to record things and I think I’d do much better with a voice recorder!! blogging has become a second profession for all of us, hasn’t it? :) thanks for coming by again Colin… I’d be visiting you soon!!! tc and kit

pearl

it certainly helps Bob…. thanks for stopping by and commenting… tc and kit

Bob

I’m trying to do a lot of blogging about everyday life and memories. You suggestion to “write it down” is one that I certainly second! Thanks for a good post!

Michael from Pro Blog Design

That was a good post, and something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. After seeing some of Darren Rowse’s latest posts (About the mall and moving house), and how he applied them to blogging, I’ve realised that it really is possible if you’re creative enough.