Your Monday Cup O' Inspiration - 3 Steps to Get Your Blogging Groove On

Some of you already have your Monday groove on. All I can say to that is, damn you. For some of us, "Monday" and "brain-dead" mean the same thing. Although a hot cup of French roast may take us out of mono-syllable land, our creativity just may need a kick-start.

Having recently re-discovered how to count to three (I heart caffeine), please allow me to share three simple steps for Monday inspiration:

1. Snag some posting inspiration right here. 101 good posting ideas? Oh yeah. Something here will get your creativity flowing.

2. Don't write it yet! First, check out Copyblogger's latest series wherein Brian rewrites and comments on user-submitted headlines - here and here (hey, one of those titles looks familiar...) Especially note the way he transforms author-centric or neutral titles (read: ZZZzzz) into magnetic headlines that resonate with others.

3. After following steps #1 and #2, you should have a pretty good idea of what you want to do. Let me suggest one thing: write the headline first. Make it magnetic, make it something that intrigues you; then write the post. Try to make every sentence retain the focus of the headline, and make sure that by the end, the headline's promise is kept.

I hope this works as well for you as it does for me. If not, you can try my plan B: a triple-short white chocolate mocha. If nothing else, your post will be memorable.