The Lazy Woman’s Guide to Posts

Lazy smurf on the beachI 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!

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Catherine spends her days giving website advice to delightful weirdoes at BeAwesomeOnline.com, and chatting to people on Twitter.
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ooooo - YES to Bowie!

Maybe a little stardust couldn't hurt as well. ;)

ooooo - YES to Bowie!

Maybe a little stardust couldn't hurt as well. ;)

LOL, awesome. My work is done here. :-)

I'm so pleased, Marjorie. Good luck with the new blog!

And now I have a new motto. :)

Yeah, I do it a lot. My first draft has a lot of adjectives that I have to get rid of!

I think I would also need to be playing David Bowie really loudly to work the sunglasses right!

Thanks Sandy! You certainly don't look like someone who suffers from laziness! Lots and lots of great stuff on your website...

Great list of ideas! Hopefully I'm not too lazy to read them all. ;)

My favorite one is "Make it into a competition with yourself" - This will help hone your skills in writing efficiently. If you can make your point with less words, it becomes more clear and easier for others to read and digest.

This article gave me some great ideas to use as a new blogger. Thanks!

Wear big ol' funky sunglasses when blogging.

fun, Fun, FUN!

(ok...for me maybe - but try it!)

Lazy is just a more zen form efficiency. :-)

What a great way to look at things - who would have thought
fun + lazy = Productive.

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