I Don't Know What to Blog: Blog Topic Ideas

writing

The first thing I do when I log in to MyEC is check out the latest blog posts. What are the learners writing? What are the teachers sharing? Some days I find really interesting thoughts. Some days I find very funny stories. I love learning about holidays and cultural events. Occasionally I find material that is copied from the web. If this happens I remind learners of the rules.

Often I find a post by someone who doesn't know what to write. Today was one of those days. As a writer, this is hard for me to understand. My problem isn't what to write. For me, the problem is finding more time to write! However, I write in my own native language. Many of you are writing in your second, third or fourth language! This is amazing and you should be proud of taking this risk.

I thought it might be helpful to make a list of blog post ideas. Many of these ideas are from members who have written blogs on these topics.

Blog Topic Ideas:

1. Write an introductory post (Answer who, what, where, when, why, how about yourself. Don't provide any information that is too personal, such as a telephone # or address)
2. Write about your day
3. Comment on a current event in the news (in your own writing)
4. Share cultural information about your country
5. Choose a writing challenge topic from my blog (such as #11). Make sure to link to your blog post from the comments in my blog. This will help more readers find your blog.
6. Share and describe a photo. (use the camera icon to upload a photo and add it to your text)
7. Describe a funny or embarrassing moment from your past.
8. Write a review about a movie, book, album, or website.
9. Write a post using EC's phrasal verb, slang, and idiom of the day.
10. Choose your favourite quote and write a post about it.
11. Pose a question to MyEC members and invite readers to comment.
12. Invent a game.
13. Provide a weather report for your town.
14. Write a poem or song
15. Write a letter to a famous person.

I hope you will join me in adding to this list. Please use the comment section to add your blog topic ideas.

*Please include a comment (with a link) if you have tried one of the topics above. I will add a link to some of my favourite examples.

Tags: blog, topics, what-to-blog

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Admin Comment by Tara Benwell on April 24, 2013 at 1:19: @Sasanka You can use the tag "corrections" when you blog. That way teachers and advanced learners will know that you want people to give you some English tips.

You can ask your grammar questions here: Grammar Help Desk

Comment by Sasanka on April 22, 2013 at 19:24: hi teacher,

i would like to thank you first and i have two quaries

1.if i put my blog, is there any one to check that and correct me?

2.i need to have grammer teacher can i do this in this site?

Comment by Daniel on February 27, 2013 at 23:36: Hi teacher Tara, excellent blog post for who is thinking of starting or even already started a new blog over here. Your ideas putted on this text are simply self-help for any one wants to kick off in a blog writting activity. Congrats! This text makes me motivated to kick off really!!!

SpamBuster Comment by Sakshi on July 18, 2012 at 14:08: Hello Tara, great tips for writing a blog. Many many thanks for sharing.

Comment by Tin Dollar on April 18, 2012 at 7:04: thank you, this is just wonderful. I love it

SpamBuster Comment by Ha Nguyen on April 14, 2012 at 1:10: Your suggestions are really helpful to me. I think I'm going to write a review about the movies "3 Idiots". My friend MoMo introduced it to me and I think the movies is fantastic :D

Comment by mitran on April 12, 2012 at 5:27: wow.. Great blog. Thanks Teacher.

Comment by Sandeep on March 21, 2012 at 8:05: Nice tips.. really helpful!

Comment by Rajesh Shrivastav on November 18, 2011 at 15:58: really of great use, some of the hints are very innovative & may be used effectively for making the blogs attractive I hope many of us will make a good use of these hints. THANKS FOR SHARING.

Comment by Sono on November 18, 2011 at 15:10: Very help full! How we mange our self to write new stuffs/blogs, and how we start to write our essay/blog/any other stuff...., I think so, we see daily new things, and we want to write some thing about them, but problem is how we do start it, on reasonable way...i know when we start and have written 4 to 5 five lines we feel confident then we complete our job...

Thanks Tara! again nice stuff you gave us, via blog..