Thursday, May 26, 2005

I’ve Come to Save the World from Blog Block

I’ve created a blog, and now I don’t know what to write. Can you help me, The Sweet, Pretty The El Guapo?

Love,
Sweet, new blogger person.


I can help you Sweet, new blogger person. For a successful blog, you have to keep your readers in mind. You have to give the readers what they want. “What,” you ask, “do readers want?” Well, I might ask you the same question. Since you didn’t, neither will I*. I will answer it though.


Readers want something to read. That means you gotta give them something to read. That’s what I do every day of Mildred**, except for two. I give the reader something to read. Sometimes I give the reader nothing to read, but at least that’s something.

When I created my blog, I wondered when I would run out of stuff to say, and that was pretty much all I had to say. So I did. Then, I created a Word file in which I write every single stupid blog topic idea that comes into The El Guapo’s brain and mine. When I get a chance, I go through it and expand upon the one ones that I can. When I say “expand,” I don’t mean a kitty. I like kitty humor. Not as much as monkey humor though. Monkey humor is the absolute best humor imaginable. Almost.

But I digest. Do you? Then I started adding theme topics, so that I can kinda repeat the same crap over and over and over. Should I say “and over” again? I think not.

And over. I did it anyway. Take that, Evil doer.

Now I have written more stuff than I can write. I have an endless supply of material for readers (or non-readers) to read (or not read) for the next week or so, as long as we all realize it won’t go over a couple minutes. That, my dear human/nonhuman, is what readers like and dislike most about reading and/or not reading.

I hope this answers your question. If not, rephrase the question in a way that it is answered by my response. Otherwise it may be a stupid question or just an incorrect question.

4 comments:

Wirthy said...

I ran out of stuff to write on my blog about three days into it.

But once I got rid of the requirement that my posts be interesting, I got right back on track.

shayne said...

Excellent point, wirthy! I've discovered that most interesting blogs are those that are the least interesting.

Thank you for also showing us that beer is good.

Jay said...

In keeping with interesting uninteresting blog posts let me just add that I have nothing to add.
In conclusion, beer.

shayne said...

Ahhh...yes, Sara. The fictional life blog. Very nice suggestion..