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This is SO Not My 850th Post

Flipping through my Blogger Dashboard yesterday, I happened on Elana Johnson’s post, titled: What Does One Blog About for Post #850? (For the record, we’re not related. We checked. Still, I fondly think of her as my amazing little cousin.)

So wow. That’s a lot of posts. And that’s a question (minus the #850 part) that I (and other bloggers, I’m quite sure) ask all the time. So today I give you my list of what to blog on when you’ve got nothin’.

1. Share a Personalized License Plate (duh!).
2. Piggyback off someone else’s blog post (clever, that).
3. Find a picture and make a post out of it. (Joanne at Whole Latte Life is excellent at this).
4. Share an embarrassing moment from your life.
5. Share a favorite quote.
6. Share an inspirational moment from your life.
7. Do an “Awards” post. You know all those awards floating around, right? Surely you forgot to pass one of them forward. And if you didn’t really get one, just pretend. Who’s going to know, right? 😉
8. Make up your own award and give it to someone.
9. Spotlight your favorite blogger.
10. Spotlight one of your heros.
11. Let your readers ask you questions that you promise to answer truthfully (a blogging-world favorite).
12. Talk about the people-watching you did at the grocery store (or from your front porch if you’re in a pinch).
13. Comment on a bit of news you read/heard.
14. Close your eyes then open them. Now write an essay on the first physical object that you see. You can talk about how it inspires you. (ex: Toothbrush. How inspiring that a toothbrush works day in an day out and wears itself out just to keep you from getting gingivitis).
15. Tell a joke.
16. Comment on a favorite movie (bonus if you relate it to writing).
17. Tell a cute kid story.
18. Tell about that time that you lied to your mom about hitting that baseball through the window, then blamed it on your . . . oh wait. Mom, I totally did not do that. Really.
19. Start a story and ask your readers to each add a sentence.
20. Post a picture of yourself when you were young. Be sure to include a funny story about yourself.
21. Share a song that inspires you.
22. Have a contest/Give something away.
23. Videotape yourself doing something crazy (why, I do believe that’s called a vlog!).

Okay, okay. I’m going to stop there because I can hear that snoring back there. Yeah, I mean you! So what do you do when you’ve got nothing?

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