There are a lot of things you can do to get over writer's block: take a walk, freewrite, listen to music, take your laptop to the backyard, or read other people's blogs.
(Vox Talks, How to Beat Blogger's Block, ¶2, 2008.10.10).
That same newsletter also proposes a variety of topics that may provide you with interesting stimuli for quick-and-dirty, or more thoughtful and thorough blog posts:
- Culture,
- Entertainment,
- Life,
- Music,
- News,
- Politics, and
- Technology
(Vox Talks, ... Blogger's Block, ¶3).
Notes:
- In this post, I have included direct quotations from that newsletter to show you how you should make ideas that you borrow from other sources stand out from your own writing, in order to avoid plagiarism, and how you can help your readers find those (or related) sources to get more information.
- The longer quotation (see: "¶2," above) comes from the second paragraph of the October 10, 2008, Vox Talks newsletter. It stands out from the surrounding text because it is in italics (i), [and] formatted as a block quotation (") with the Compose toolbar:
- The other ideas that I've borrowed, the list of subject areas suggested in paragraph three of the newsletter (see: "¶3," above), I've reformatted as a list, and emphasized with bullets, again citing the source in parentheses.
- For more examples of quotations and source citations, please browse previous posts that I've labeled "quotations" (sidebar: Labels).
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