http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/01/29/coming-up-with-good-blog-ideas/ Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:58:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/01/29/coming-up-with-good-blog-ideas/#comment-339 The Writer’s Coin » Blog Archive » Quality over Quantity recap Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:19:06 +0000 http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/01/29/coming-up-with-good-blog-ideas/#comment-339 [...] discussing the idea with some other, more established bloggers, last week I decided to make a conscious effort to write fewer posts of “higher quality,” whatever [...] [...] discussing the idea with some other, more established bloggers, last week I decided to make a conscious effort to write fewer posts of “higher quality,” whatever [...]

]]> http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/01/29/coming-up-with-good-blog-ideas/#comment-324 The Writer’s Coin » Blog Archive » What we can learn from Guitar Hero Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:47:46 +0000 http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/01/29/coming-up-with-good-blog-ideas/#comment-324 [...] I mentioned earlier this week, reading is one way that helps me brainstorm new ideas. It doesn’t have to be something new, [...] [...] I mentioned earlier this week, reading is one way that helps me brainstorm new ideas. It doesn’t have to be something new, [...]

]]> http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/01/29/coming-up-with-good-blog-ideas/#comment-309 Frugal Dad Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:41:44 +0000 http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/01/29/coming-up-with-good-blog-ideas/#comment-309 Like you, my inspiration tyically comes from life experiences. One of the best pieces of advice I've heard was to start "thinking like a blogger." In other words, when things happen in your own life think about ways to spin that experience into a story. One of my last posts, "The One Hundred Fifty Dollar Coin Wallet" was born from a family get-together where my wife told the story of finding the wallet and planning to buy it as a joke for her "frugal husband," your truly. We all had a good laugh, but on the way home it occured to me that I could actually develop that story into an artlcle on Frugal Dad. Like you, my inspiration tyically comes from life experiences. One of the best pieces of advice I’ve heard was to start “thinking like a blogger.” In other words, when things happen in your own life think about ways to spin that experience into a story. One of my last posts, “The One Hundred Fifty Dollar Coin Wallet” was born from a family get-together where my wife told the story of finding the wallet and planning to buy it as a joke for her “frugal husband,” your truly. We all had a good laugh, but on the way home it occured to me that I could actually develop that story into an artlcle on Frugal Dad.

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