Ways to Waken Your Snoozing Blog Muse

Chicago Transit Authority's Chair Carole Brown  got the inspiration to blog in a bar... "while she waited for a friend in a bar during a CTA funding crisis . . . she was reading on her PDA all the caustic comments about her in an online forum. One person called her the "angel of death." 

Carole has lots to blog about just answering questions and giving updates but it can't be easy all the time. So once we get the call to the bloggosphere, how do we best encourage out muse?

Tip: Scan the latest snippets of information that are traveling across and around the world brain maze on Twitter . It's sure to spark thoughts on one of them.

Developing topics brought up elsewhere works for a lot of bloggers but what about getting outside our current boxes?

When looking for ideas I found things I'd never heard of:

• Blog Inspiration (interesting concept)
• an article from Elliott Back called Keeping It Going
• one from A.P.Lawrence.com
• Creativity Central - Journal  "great warm ups and techniques (in) a series of creative workouts."

And as always there's the must-see Copyblogger with his bottomless bag of tips and insights including this one about Mark Twain's advice to bloggers. There's something for everyone here.

Other resources:

• Creativity Portal's imagination prompt - which didn't work for me even with java allowed but looks interesting
• The Blog Herald's many posts on related issues
• and information on how to avoid plagiarism.

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Comments

[Susan Reynolds]

Aha! Another good one. Gather is like the long winded version of Twitter - always a zillion thoughts coming in!

[webduck]

I am always looking for inspiration for blog topics too. One of the places that inspires me also is Gather. Even if it is just to read some funny posts by my friends, it gives me a break, and they make me think of things I could write about also.