10 Ways To Create A Blog Post In Less Than 60 Seconds

I get asked all the time. Well no, not all the time, but sometimes, or at least once I recall anyway, being asked how I manage to keep a daily blog going. Now, as you can imagine, coming up with pithy, relevant, interesting and entertaining words every day can be a bit of a slog. It also does serious damage to my coffee and cigarette budget, so occasionally, it’s worth speeding up the process. How do I do that, I hear you ask?

Here they are, then.

10 Ways To Zip A Blog Post In Less Than 60 Seconds.

1. Grab any video from YouTube. Doesn’t matter which one really as no one is going to watch it anyway.
2. Post some family snaps. If you have iPhoto it should take less than 30 seconds. Try and use baby or puppy dog photos to attract attention.
3. Copy a really old poem or three. Really, really old so you don’t get into copyright problems.
4. Post some of your witty Twitter comments. (You can even get a widget to do this automatically for you.) So cool.
5. Search your hard drive for recipes. There’s always a couple hiding away. (Vegetarian preferably so you have less chance of offending anyone at all.)
6. Just put the word ‘Apple’ in your title and simply ‘iPad’ in your post and watch the search engines listing your blog in microseconds.
7. Republish a previous post. (Make sure it’s at least 3 months old as some of your readers may have good memory.)
8. Post a song! Well, be careful here as audio tracks could get you into copyright problems and anyway, they look boring. So go to rule 1 and get a YouTube video of your favourite song.
9. Keep junk email. Make use of the pests by copying some half-interesting bit of text. (Perfectly safe as I don’t think spammers would copyright their crap?)
10. Post an out of office message. (My favourite.)

So there you have it. Happy blogging!

Derek Haines

Derek Haines (AKA The Vandal) is an author and a retired English teacher. He spends most of his time writing, blogging, and fixing technology that goes wrong. You can find his latest writing and publishing articles at Just Publishing Advice.