I have a confession to make: I’m incredibly lazy. If you follow me around the intertubes this may surprise you: I post daily on my website, contribute robustly on three forums, and twitter all the live long day. So how do I do it?
My key to action: no-one’s too lazy to do something fun.
So how do you make writing posts fun?
- Write on a topic you’re passionate about
- Review a product you love
- Interview someone cool
- Run an experiment
- Answer a question from a commenter you like
- Make the abstract into concrete (I once explained how domain names work with hand puppets.)
- Write something funny
- State a controversial opinion
- Solve a problem
- Be vulnerable – talk about something you did wrong and what you learned
- Make it into a competition with yourself (What is the fewest words I can use to be very clear and emotive?)
- Imagine your ideal reader’s reaction
- Write an imaginary conversation
- Sit a reward on the desk for when you’ve finished
- Write about something old in a new way
- Simplify a complex issue
- Ask questions
- Talk about yourself (as an example of something!)
- Answer a what-if question
- Swap guest posts with another blogger
- Use a favourite song, movie, etc as inspiration
- Play devil’s advocate
- Put your topic in a different setting: financial advice from the beach!
- Talk to yourself as you were 5 years ago
Have I got the fun engines turning? Do you have lots of other clever way to have fun? Tell me in the comments!
