I also find writing prompts on various blogs that help jumpstart my writing.

I never thought of using my Twitter feed, but I'm not as tied to it and so I'd miss new posts that way. Besides, a lot of the blogs I read I don't follow on Twitter (and I'm not even sure they all tweet).

I'll have to check out Stumblupon. I'd heard of it but now that someone's explained it 🙂

I totally understand about writing for yourself, Amy. Are there other things besides blogs that you read or subscribe to that help you gather content?

I think the idea of having a theme for a certain day is a good one. One of the most important components to growing the community around a blog is consistency. People come back to a blog because they like what you gave them and want more of it. So, if you say every Wednesday we're going to talk about X, the people who are interested in that are going to look forward to it.

Theme days usually have a shelf-life, though, as you may exhaust a certain topic or get tired of that specific style.

I don't watch TV news anymore either and I only get a newspaper on Sunday. I used to check news sites like cnn.com on a regular basis, but now I just count on the people I follow to tweet something if it's important. It hasn't failed me yet. Of course, I guess I don't know what I may have missed. 🙂

I like that idea – although whenever I try it I get bored (soooooo totally lacking discipline). I think I've had four or five different day themes from Short&sweet on friday to super commentary monday's. But it also doesn't take a lot to be more disciplined than me lol. In other words, I really like the idea, i've just never been able to do it myself 🙂

That is a very interesting idea about Wednesday Trendsdays! I like that! Maybe that's an idea to keep me focused, too. Kinda have a theme or idea for each day. That way I have an idea of what i will be preparing for but it keeps things switched up too. What do you think about that?