I was amazed at the response my last blog received. It received over 100 hits in three days, which is a LOT for me. So I have made a commitment to myself to blog regularly. The plan is once per week. Additionally, in order to build a readership, I have all but eliminated politics from my blogging vocabulary. Well, not really, but I will have to be REALLY fired up to post a political blog.
Samantha always encouraged me to write humorous posts, because for some reason she thinks I’m funny. I can be funny, but not when I try. I usually make people laugh inadvertently, like during spontaneous conversation, or when I take my pants off.
But people like humor, so I figure that’s a good way to build a readership as well. I have to tell you, trying to find a good topic from which humor can be mined that a disparate group of readers will relate to is hella-hard. Let me just give you a rundown of the topics I considered for this blog:
- What I Learned from Seven Years of Marriage, Part 3: IN 3D!!!!
- What I Learned from Seven Years of Child Rearing, Part 1: Fart Jokes Über Alles
- What I Learned from Seven Years of Child Rearing, Part 1: Kids Kinda Suck
- How to get Fired from a Movie Theater in Five Easy Steps, or What I Did Last Friday Night
- Fitness Hell, or God’s Twisted Sense of Humor
- The Funny Thing about Crohn’s Disease
- Alzheimer’s Jokes I Tell My Dad Every Time I’m Home
- The Cleveland Cavaliers
- MSNBC’s Ratings Now that Olbermann has Quit
- My Bank Account
So I am throwing this out to you, dear reader. What do you find funny? What do you like to read blogs about? Send me some of your thoughts. You writers in the audience—how do you get past the writer’s block and find new topics about which to write?
Now that my readership numbers in the tens of…tens…I KNOW you will all rally together and send me some guidance on this!
