Monday night, I had a really hard time getting to sleep.
As I desperately tried to get to sleep (only 5.5 hours until my alarm goes off … only 5 hours … only 4.75 hours … etc) I had an idea for a blog topic. I thought it all out in my head, had some snappy lines to write, etc. (Don’t tell me that you don’t think about your blog when you’re not actually blogging!) It was going to be a great post.
The next night, I sat down to write about it.
A great post about …
I had no idea.
I absolutely could NOT remember what I had decided to blog about. And I knew that what I had planned out would have been one of my best posts ever.
I think perhaps I need a tiny notebook so that I can at leaast jot down the subject. If I had written down just a sentence about the subject (which I have since remembered), I would have been able to remember everything else.
I think I’m going to look for one.
Does anyone else try to keep track of ideas for blog topics? If so, how do you do it? Does it work well for you?
I hate that! It happens to me all the time. If I could just remember all the fabulous posts I meant to write, my blog would rock.
Oh well.
I’ve heard of people making notebooks for blogging. It seems like a good idea, but where would you keep it? It would have to be handy every moment of the day.
Because I sometimes write about topics that are timely (a movie airing on TV soon, the anniversary of a particular event, a celeb’s birthday, etc.), I often write the topic and date that I will post it on my dry erase board that I keep on my fridge.
If I happen to be at or near my PC when a blog post idea comes to me, I will start writing the post and keep it in draft status.
Late last year I came up with an idea for a Thursday Thirteen topic. Since I didn’t have 13 entries for topic, I would jot them down on a piece of paper (kept near my PC) as they came to me. Although I have the 13 entries, I am waiting until the fall to do it.
Hmm… The odds are pretty good that the idea had something to do with carseats.
I just sit and type…brain to keyboard to blog. Unless I get a good picture of something funny during the day.
[...] I was inspired by BookMama’s post the other day, saying how she believes that she should have a notebook handy to jot down little Ideas for blog posts but I don’t think a notepad would get the job done [...]
I understand! My computer was down for a while this summer and I actually hand-wrote days worth of stuff which I then transferred back onto my computer after it was fixed.
I also substitute taught the last school year (not this one, just had a baby) and there were a lot of days when the kids were actually good, so I’d take a few sheets of paper and “blog” stuff for later.