At WordPress.com our raison d’ĂȘtre is to do everything we can to help you make your blog the very best it can be. Over at The Daily Post we’ve got daily writing prompts to give your muse a friendly nudge, we publish articles on how to grow your traffic and community, as well as tips and advice on how to take great photos, no matter which gear you choose.
We’ve compiled a ton of great material into three new ebooks, made with love, for you. And, they’re free. They come in three fetching formats so we’ve got you covered no matter whether .pdf, .epub (iBooks), or .mobi (Kindle) is your jam.
365 Writing Prompts
So you want to write but you have trouble getting started? Writers’ block a perpetual, unwelcome guest? With 365 Writing Prompts we’ve got a different writing prompt to jumpstart your muse each and every day of the year. Looking for more writing inspiration and practice? Be sure to check out our weekly writing challenges.
Photography 101
Chock-full of inspiration, technical tips, and practical ideas you can apply right away, Photography 101: The basics of photography and the power of visual storytelling will help you take and make beautiful photographs and school you on post-processing so that your work can shine, no matter whether you’ve got a monster-sized DSLR or a trusty cameraphone in your pocket. If you’d like more practice with your camera, c’mon over to The Daily Post and participate in our weekly photo challenges. We provide the theme each week, you interpret it with your camera as you see fit.
Grow Your Traffic, Build Your Blog
Most of us write, shoot, and blog for the love of it, though it’s always a great feeling to get a Like or a comment, or participate in a great conversation with someone who shares your interests. If you’d like to attract more traffic and nurture a community around your site, take Grow Your Traffic, Build Your Blog: Tips and Tricks for the Tenacious Blogger for a spin.
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I’m always having trouble coming up with a “theme” or discussion topic for my blogs, and this is a really great guideline for people like me! Interesting…
I love how you guys offer tips and help to the everyday or occasional (like myself) blogger. Thanks so much!
While I have to admit I’m slightly biased, I can’t recommend The Daily Post enough when it comes to blogging inspiration, tending your community, learning more about WP.com features, and meeting a like-minded crowd of supportive people.
I think these books are a great idea for a couple reasons. It reminds me of being in English class during high school where my teacher would make us write for the first 10 minutes of class to get our brain juices flowing. Whenever we started class with a writing prompt people were more likely to contribute to the conversation than when we just jumped straight into a topic. I find it when I write in the morning I become more open with people around me throughout the day. By getting my thought process going in the morning it helps me better communicate with people and express my ideas easier than when I don’t write in the morning.
In general, I can see all three of these books being helpful for a PR student or somebody that would like to get into PR.
Love you guys and thanks for the tips.
I like how you guys are always posting and keeping us entertained with your creativity and imaginational spark. It has got me moving and really imto the habit of blogging and is keeping me at the top with my website. I have a tip too for more traffic. Comment more and also make interesting posts that way people will view them and also reblog them which would give some credit to your websote. Thanks for the great tips and keep on shining.
Reblogged this on Miss Mac's Bag of Tricks and commented:
Gosh I wish I would have read this 30 minutes ago while I was trying to think of something to talk about. haha
Once again a very useful tip for all bloggers out there! Your team is indeed is “pressing” it excellently!
Great tips! Thanks for sharing!
I write about Fitness and Health and my Triathlon training! Greetings from Austria
Very good useful content for bloggers like me. Thank you.
Inspiring! I am hoping to be a regular blogger after a long hiatus and a whole lot of changes in life. It’s a gratifying feeling to see things like this making the getting back easier!
Thanks!
These are great, thank you so much. No I don’t need to browse the Internet for prompts anymore (always bears the danger of getting distracted…)