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 day3. Comment on a current event in the news (in your own writing)4. Share cultural information about your country5. 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 song15. 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.
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  • Thanks a lot Tara for helping me.

    Really I got so many ideas now and soon I will share my blogs.

    :)

  • @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

  • 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!!!

  • Nice tips.. really helpful!

  • 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..

  • Good points to keep, thanks Tara.
  • hi teacher ,
    i find this information very interesting and useful for me and for all MyEC's communtiy , thank you so much for all what you do .
  • Great Xiao Yu! I look forward to your blog. Please share this link with your friends! Sometimes the hardest part is just thinking of a topic. You can always try the writing challenges! (You can try the old ones too.)

    Thanks for sharing Karenina!
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  • just saw this discussion,
    its very useful thankyou , just what i was looking for
    nadira
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