No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog [Paperback]

Margaret Mason (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 21, 2006 | ISBN-10: 032144972X | ISBN-13: 978-0321449726 | Edition: 1

Tired of filling up your blog with boring posts? Take the next step and get inspired to create something unique. Author Margaret Mason shows you the way with this fun collection of inspirational ideas for your blog. Nobody Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog is a unique idea-book for bloggers seeking fun, creative inspiration. Margaret gives writers the prompts they need to describe, imagine, investigate and generate clever posts. Sample ideas include:

• Writing a serial novel
• Conducting unnecessary experiments
• Creating your autobiography
• Public eavesdropping
• And much, much more

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About the Author

Margaret Mason has been a professional writer and editor for over a decade. Her shopping blog, Mighty Goods, was recently named number one shopping site by both Business Week and Forbes, and her personal website, Mighty Girl, draws thousands of readers each day. She is a contributing writer for The Morning News, a New York-based Web magazine, and The New York Times. Mason is also a sought-after expert on lifestyle issues. She has been interviewed by The New York Times, Crain's Business Daily, The San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco's KFOG radio.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (August 21, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 032144972X
• ISBN-13: 978-0321449726
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.3 x 8.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #844,210 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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47 of 56 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Even old dogs can learn some new tricks here... August 20, 2006

By Thomas Duff HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Paperback

OK... I'm a sucker for an unusual title, and this one grabbed my attention right off... No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog by Margaret Mason. While it may not be a techie's idea of blog inspiration, it was a fun read that *did* spur some ideas for me...

Contents: Fifteen Minutes to Fame; Thirty Minutes Away from the TV; An Hour at the Screen; Take Your Time; Think Like a Writer; Index; About the Author

Mason is thrilled at the opportunities that blogs have given the average person for self-expression, but laments that too many blogs are obsessive navel-gazing exercises that hold little to no interest over time. She wrote No One Cares as a way to help you come up with creative and new ideas for blog material that can lead to unusual material and interesting insights to the life and world of the writer. Each idea takes just a single page (a few "long" ones take two pages) and throws out a suggestion that you can use to spur the creative juices. For instance, if you kept a diary growing up, you might want to use some of those pages as a glimpse into your past. Your youthful angst *can* be laughed at now... Perhaps you have some "inside knowledge" of the place/city you live... Share it with your readers. Or one that I could take advice from... "Get Defensive". Take a stand on something you like that goes against conventional wisdom, and proudly show your colors. While not every idea will resonate with all bloggers, there should be something in here to push you in a direction you hadn't considered.

For those who are blogging technical information with no personal color, bypass this book. You probably won't "get it". Better yet, try coming out of your shell and show your readers a bit of yourself. While some people can't do that for legal or professional reasons, it's far too often used as a dodge to avoid your readers. For those who *do* mix personal and technical life on their blog, this is a fun read that could help you connect (or re-connect) with your audience...

And now if I do something totally new on my blog, you'll know where I stole the ideas from... :)

20 of 24 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Blogging has arrived it seems December 26, 2007

By Roland Hesz

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

Well, blogging has arrived. I mean really.
This book is a good example of that, one of those 101 and "in 24 hours" books.
The subject is fun, the content is about 100 blog posts, the price for this is ridiculous.
The author complains that people are writing about their lunch, but funny thing is that her 31st idea for blogging is - yes, you guessed, lunch.
The book is basically about how to bare youself more to the public, how to put more of your private life on the net - hey, have you got an embarrassing memory that makes you cry and curl up? Post it!
Have you got embarrassing photos? Post it!

No one cares what you had for lunch, but hey, why don't you tell us what's in your purse?

Blogging has arrived. And this book is one of those "lets make some money without any effort" books.

But, if you don't mind the price - 20 USD? for this? -, you can have a good bedtime reading. And there are some good thoughts in this. Just not too many.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars What you had for lunch might be more interesting December 22, 2008

By Laura Hamilton

Format:Paperback

These ideas are about as creative and original as writing about what you had for lunch.

The book is skinny, the writing ideas are brief, and the content of the ideas is really thin. I've seen more interesting writing prompts in grade school writing classes.

Really wish I would have read all the reviews before buying this book.

Using these ideas really won't make your blog one to read.