Number 1: Pick a subject that almost no one in the world even knows exists.
Number 2: Choose an angle that no normal person would choose, and which will infuriate all the "normies"- if they ever discover your blog. Which, if you do item 1 right, they won't.
Number 3: Even though you don't get much attention, don't change anything substantive trying to get noticed.
Number 4: Keep it up. Don't quit.
Added recently- Number 5: Make videos which can be ignored by billions of people worldwide.
OK. Slightly more seriously...
I find I have the best blog ideas (well, the ones I think are best, anyway) while I am doing completely unrelated things. Things like taking a shower, mowing, making something, or sitting and waiting. Things that don't require much thought, but also don't put me to sleep. (But falling asleep at night is when I also have ideas.) That's when my bored mind starts working and pasting together thoughts inspired by things I have read or heard or which just form in my mind from who-knows-where. Before I know it, a full-blown blog post will be rattling around in my skull, just waiting for me to either write it down, or forget what it was.
If I am smart, I quickly stop and text the idea to my email (or, make a conscious mental note, at least), otherwise I usually forget what I was thinking and miss the chance. I really hate when I forget one, but I still haven't learned to "save" them every time- I always think "I'll remember this for sure!".
If you do it right, after a decade or so you'll have literally dozens of people reading your blog every day. Only the best people, of course, not those other ones.
Good luck!
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One thing I've found in my blogging (12 years now) is this:
ReplyDeleteIf I have a sudden idea and dash it off right away it will get a few hundred views the first day and show up in my stats for years as a hit-getter.
But if I agonize over a post for four hours to get it JUST RIGHT, it will get five hits the first day and never be heard from again in my stats.
That's almost always the way it works out. Or at least it seems that way.
Yeah, that too. LOL
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