There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a blog post and realizing you've run out of good ideas. For those who are struggling to generate new and unique post ideas for your author blog, here's a few on us:
How did you get started in your career? How did you get to where you are today?
Compile a list of links and posts on a specific topic.
What marketing tips didn't work for you?
Take an unrelated topic and tie it back to your niche.
Profile your readers.
Create an ultimate guide.
What is the best part of what you do?
How did you come to the decision to market your book a certain way?
Write a series of blog posts as chapters that will eventually be published as an E-book.
Set up a writing contest on your blog.
Search writing forums for questions that you can then turn into blog posts.
What adventures does someone in your career experience?
Interview another author.
Make a list of the best jokes in your niche.
Pick a movie and tie it to writing.
What are your top distractions and how do you overcome them?
What scares you the most and why?
List of industry hacks.
5 words to describe you as an author, your books, and your biz.
Share your opinions on hot industry topics.
What are your favorite vacation writing spots?
How do you plan to achieve your current writing or author goals?
What will you give up doing this month or year?
What does the road to success look like?
Share the best writing advice you've ever been given.
What are your goals for the next five, ten years?
Share a bunch of your reviews for your current book.
Share your reading list for the month, season, or year.
Do you write for or donate to a charity?
What is your dream job?
What inspires you to write?
What's on your author bucket list?
Who is your biggest author role model and why.
What is your author motto?
How do you schedule your work week as a writer?
Celebrate your blog's birthday!
Do you have side hustles? What are they?
Do you write in different niches? Why or why not?
How do you work while traveling?
What bothers you about your niche or industry?
What excites you about your niche or industry?
What can readers learn from your novel?
What can aspiring writers learn from you?
What events have shaped your author life?
Share your favorite author events that you've attended.
What's a current frustration you have?
Any writer traditions or rituals?
What advice has stuck with you for a long time? Who gave it?
What is the next book-inspired vacation you'd love to take?
If you could pick one book character to travel with, who would it be?
Pick someone from the past to interview.
Who inspired your book and why?
If you could invite three book characters to dinner, who would they be? What would you eat? What would you talk about?
If you could have witnessed an event in history, what would you have picked, and why?
Glimpse into your life.
What do you want to improve on and why?
How do you stay healthy as a writer?
What book character could you not live without and why?
Share any place you've spoken or been featured.
Share what your first book signing experience was like.
Share your tips for how to navigate a book conference.
Interview a Booktok influencer or a book blogger in your niche.
Day in the life as a writer in your niche.
Book recommendations within your niche.
Craft books.
What are your go-to writing podcasts?
Which skills do you need to be successful in your career?
What are the 10 Commandments of your career?
What are the 7 Deadly Sins of your career?
Truth vs. Lie or Myth vs. Truth post.
How'd you start your blog?
What lessons have you learned from what you do?
What is the toughest part of being an author?
What are your favorite literary or bookish blogs?
What websites help you write the most?
Who is your favorite fictional character? What qualities do you share?
Who would you cast as the "movie" version of the characters in your book?
What are your go-to writing apps?
What are your favorite blog plug-ins?
What is your favorite memory?
What is the silliest thing you've ever written? Do you still have it?
Your favorite blog posts each month.
What are the best writing events you went to last year?
What's on your current writing playlist?
What's part of your current writing routine?
Create a roundup of the best blog post topics from the week or month.
What is your favorite way to spend your day off?
Best (fill in the blank) tutorial.
What is your mission statement?
What is your vision?
What do you do when you're overwhelmed or fail?
List times you failed and how you overcame those failures.
Nobody knows that I...
What is the worst thing you've ever done as a writer.
Send out a poll, survey, or quiz.
Are you hosting any upcoming events? Book releases?
Profile your role model.
How do you do self-care as an author?
What are you passionate about?
What keeps you creative?
Happy Writing!
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