While watching So You Think You Can Dance last night, I got a call from my Staingirl, Kaye. She wanted to know whether I had a post for today. Of course not. I was watching one of my favorite shows. Besides with her new found obsession of David Cassidy (Serioiusly?), I figured she had plenty to blog about. Right? Oh so wrong! Oh crap, what to write about now?

Our blog is a general blog. It is not a niche so we do not have to come up with 300 articles on a microchip. We are targeting “women of a certain age”, and our interests are diverse. As a matter of fact, whenever Kaye and I are speaking about just about anything, we immediately think we have a blog post. Too bad our kids may read our musings. Oh well!

So what do we do? Here’s what seems to work for us, and a couple of additional suggestions:

1. Keep a list of topics to write about. Ideas for a blog post can crop up during a conversation or while reading for pleasure or business. They can also leave that sieve I like to call a brain. So I now keep a log of ideas that I can refer to when I don’t have something that I am burning to blog about.

2. Keep any interesting articles you run across. This goes hand in hand with keeping a list of topics to write about. During my spare time, I love reading magazine articles and surfing the web. The other day I read an item in the paper on different articles of undergarments which improve our appearance. Right away, I thought about the Staingirlz and those women with a shelf. I clipped that article, and will be reviewing the items listed from time to time.

3. Actively research and seek out topics of interest to your blog. I haven’t actually done this because our blog is relatively young and fairly general, and we currently have plenty to write about. But if I had a more specialized blog, limited in scope, which did not have a topic readily to mind on a regular basis, I would seek out trade periodicals and specialized internet sites to assist me in developing new topics for my blog.

4. Subscribe to a newsfeed, whether it’s general or specialized to your topic. A blog on politics isn’t going to get too far if it rehashes old news, but a blog that breaks the news will generate a name and a huge following. A tech blog that reviews or reports on cutting edge technology will pique a lot of interest.

Let us know what you do to fight blogger’s block.