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Writing Prompts for Bloggers

Posts to write for a personal, travel or family blog, each with a working title.

Writing Prompts for Bloggers

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  1. Tell how you built the first thing you were proud of, mistakes included.Working title: How I Built a Bookshelf That Leans Only a Little
  2. List the drafts you never finished, with one line on each and why you are letting it go.Working title: Seven Drafts I Am Letting Go
  3. Explain a saying in your family that nobody outside your home would understand.Working title: Why We Say Check the Blue Bowl

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Personal 13

  • Answer, once and in full, the question that readers and friends ask you most often. Working title: Yes, I Really Do Bike in the Winter
  • Describe an ordinary Tuesday in enough detail that a reader in ten years could picture it. Working title: A Tuesday, Written Down Before I Forget It
  • Describe what you can see from the place where you write your posts, and what that view leaves out. Working title: The View From the Kitchen Table
  • Go back to a post you published a year ago and reply to it. Working title: An Answer to Myself, One Year On
  • Introduce yourself again, as if the blog were new, without naming your job or your age. Working title: Start Here: Who Writes This Thing
  • Look at a small habit that has lasted longer than you expected, and work out why this one stuck. Working title: Four Hundred Days of the Same Walk
  • Own up to a skill you are bad at and keep practicing anyway. Working title: Eleven Years of Terrible Guitar
  • Pick an object on your desk that a visitor would not look at twice, and tell your readers where it came from. Working title: The Stapler I Have Moved Four Times
  • Remember a time you were the beginner in a room full of people who were not, and take your readers into the room. Working title: Last in the Pottery Class
  • What did you change your mind about this year, and what changed it? Give the before and the after. Working title: I Was Wrong About Mornings
  • What do you still make by hand, and why have you not stopped? Take your readers through one batch. Working title: Why I Still Bake the Bread
  • Write a letter to the reader who found your blog today and has read nothing else on it. Working title: If You Just Got Here
  • Write the post you keep not writing. Start with why you have been putting it off. Working title: The Draft That Sat for a Year

Travel 13

  • A traveler has exactly one day in your own town. Write the post that tells them how to spend it. Working title: One Day Here, the Way a Local Would Spend It
  • Compare one place you have traveled to in two seasons. Working title: The Lake in July and the Lake in January
  • Describe a market, a station or a ferry dock in its first hour of the morning, for readers who will never go. Working title: Six in the Morning at the Fish Market
  • Go back, on the page, to a place you have visited twice. What was different the second time? Working title: Same Town, Ten Years Later
  • Map out, turn by turn, the walk you would send any visitor on. Working title: The Forty-Minute Walk I Send Everyone On
  • On some trip a stranger gave you directions, a ride or a tip. Tell where it led. Working title: The Man at the Bus Stop Was Right
  • Recall the oddest room you ever slept in on a trip, and be kind to it. Working title: The Room With the Door That Would Not Close
  • Take your readers into a museum, a shop or a cafe too small for any guidebook. Working title: The Museum With One Room
  • Think of a meal on a trip that you found only by accident, and tell how you came to be at that table. Working title: The Lunch We Found Because the Bus Was Late
  • Walk your readers down a single street in a place you visited, from one end to the other. Working title: One Street in a Town I Almost Skipped
  • What did you learn to say in another language on a trip? Tell about the first time you said it. Working title: Three Words That Got Me Fed
  • Which place you have traveled to was least like its photographs? Show your readers the difference. Working title: What the Pictures Leave Out
  • You once went somewhere slowly, by train, by boat or on foot. Tell what you saw because of it. Working title: Nine Hours by Train, on Purpose

Family and home 13

  • A dish was handed down to you with one step nobody wrote down. Tell how you found the step. Working title: Grandma's Soup, and the Part She Left Out
  • Before you were a parent you swore you would never do one thing. Tell about the day you did it. Working title: I Said I Would Never Cut the Crusts Off
  • Describe a holiday at your home the way a first-time guest would see it. Working title: What Our Guests Must Think
  • Describe your home at its loudest hour of the day. Working title: Five O'Clock at Our House
  • Explain a saying in your family that nobody outside your home would understand. Working title: Why We Say Check the Blue Bowl
  • Give your readers a tour of the drawer, the shelf or the pile at home that never gets sorted. Working title: A Tour of the Drawer
  • One night dinner failed. Tell what went wrong and what the family ate instead. Working title: The Night the Lasagna Lost
  • One room in your home has changed its job more than once. Tell its story. Working title: The Office That Became a Nursery That Became an Office
  • Take the whole family to the grocery store and report on the trip, aisle by aisle. Working title: Forty Minutes, Three Kids, One Cart
  • What did bedtime sound like at your house tonight? Write it down while you remember it. Working title: Three More Questions and a Glass of Water
  • What did your child say this week that you want to remember? Set down the whole scene around it. Working title: Overheard From the Back Seat
  • Write in praise of a household chore you have finally made peace with. Working title: A Few Kind Words for Folding Laundry
  • Your own parents did something that you understand only now that you are one. Tell what it was. Working title: Now I Know Why Dad Stood at the Window

A list post 13

  • List everything on your desk, your shelf or your kitchen counter, with a sentence for each thing. Working title: Everything on My Desk, Ranked
  • List the drafts you never finished, with one line on each and why you are letting it go. Working title: Seven Drafts I Am Letting Go
  • List the mistakes you made in your first year of something. Working title: Ten Mistakes From My First Garden
  • List the places a short walk from your door that a visitor would go straight past. Working title: Six Places on My Street You Would Walk Past
  • List the questions you wish someone had asked you before you took up your hobby. Working title: Eight Questions for a New Beekeeper
  • List the rules you follow that nobody ever gave you. Working title: Six Rules I Made Up and Still Keep
  • List the small things that made an ordinary week better, in the order they happened. Working title: Five Good Things From a Plain Week
  • List the sounds of your block through one whole day. Working title: A Day on My Block, in Twelve Sounds
  • List the things you have passed on to more than one person: a recipe, a tool, a way of doing a job. Working title: The Things I Keep Giving Away
  • List the tools you reach for every week, and the one you bought and never touched. Working title: Five Tools I Use and One Still in Its Box
  • List the words and phrases you use too often, and where you picked each one up. Working title: Nine Things I Say Too Much
  • List what a job taught you that had nothing to do with the job. Working title: What Three Summers at a Car Wash Taught Me
  • List what you would tell a friend who was moving to your town. Working title: Eleven Things Nobody Tells You About Living Here

A how-I-did-it post 13

  • Tell how you built the first thing you were proud of, mistakes included. Working title: How I Built a Bookshelf That Leans Only a Little
  • Tell how you cooked one dish again and again until it came out right. Working title: How I Got the Pancakes Right on the Ninth Try
  • Tell how you did something the slow way on purpose. Working title: How I Wrote Fifty Letters by Hand
  • Tell how you finished a project that had stalled, and what got it moving again. Working title: How I Finally Finished the Quilt
  • Tell how you got through a long job by cutting it into days. Working title: How I Painted a House One Wall at a Time
  • Tell how you grew something, from the seed to the first one you picked. Working title: How I Grew Basil on a Windowsill
  • Tell how you learned something from scratch as an adult, week by week. Working title: How I Learned to Swim at Forty
  • Tell how you made room for a hobby in a small home. Working title: How I Fit a Workshop Into a Closet
  • Tell how you mended something you had been told to throw away. Working title: How I Brought a Thrift-Store Lamp Back
  • Tell how you planned a gathering for other people, from the first list to the last chair. Working title: How We Threw a Block Party in Two Weeks
  • Tell how you sorted one shelf, one closet or one box, and what you kept. Working title: How I Sorted Twenty Years of Photos
  • Tell how you started your blog, and what its first month looked like. Working title: How This Blog Began
  • Tell how you taught someone else a thing you love to do. Working title: How I Taught My Nephew to Fish

How it works

These writing prompts for bloggers are posts waiting to be written, sorted by the kind of blog and the kind of post.

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Personal, travel and parent blog writing prompts

Personal blog writing prompts start from what only the writer has: a changed mind, a habit that stuck, the view from the desk. Travel blog writing prompts ask for one street, one meal, one small museum. Parent blog writing prompts stay home: bedtime, the grocery run, the drawer nobody sorts.

List posts and how-I-did-it posts

Two groups are sorted by shape. A list post gathers small things under one heading: tools you reach for, rules you made up. A how-I-did-it post tells one job from start to finish, mistakes included, in the order it happened.

  • Write the post first and the title last. The working title is only a handle.
  • A prompt you have no answer for belongs on someone else's blog. Take the next one.

Questions and answers

What are creative writing prompts for bloggers?

Prompts that ask for a scene where a post would usually give an opinion. Tell where an object on your desk came from, or describe an ordinary Tuesday so that a reader in ten years could picture it.

Which blog writing prompts suit a brand-new blog?

Three to start with: the post that introduces you without your job or your age, a letter to the reader who found the blog today, and the how-I-did-it post about how the blog began.

Do these writing prompts for blog writers cover marketing?

No. Every row is something to write from your own life, home or travels; none is about traffic, search or selling.

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