Yesterday I got a very nice email from a fellow Rainer asking me how I come up with so many blog topics. I sent him a couple of emails on the subject and thought perhaps others would like to know what I do and chime in too. How do you come up with your topics? I keep a nice, tiny notebook for ideas for my blog, www.LiveInLosGatos.com. When something amuses me, makes me wonder, or gets me enthusiastic, I jot it down. I also read up on local news online quite a bit. I check the events calendar. And I try to mix it up in terms of the general topics.
So one entry might be about something involving Los Gatos history. Another is on something fun to do. Then one on food - everyone likes to eat! I enjoy trying to track down the answers to questions. Over the years, Jim and I have often found ourselves a little annoyed at low-flying helicopters. So I decided to blog about it - though obviously I don't want to go into rant mode. For years, I've collected ghost stories and been amazed at the response I get to that subject. So I throw in a ghost story here and there.
Lately I've been working really, really hard. No time to exercize, meals at weird hours - you know how that is. So I will undoubtedly take a page from my own life and do a blog entry on where to get a good salad in town. And since having a massage is on my mind, I will also do a post on where to get pampered.
And of course, the topic of real estate must be interwoven into all of this. So from time to time, I like to discuss the character (and history) of a neighborhood, real estate housing market information and stats, and so on.
I don't have a shortage of topics since this corner of Silicon Valley is so very interesting. Today's blog entry is about an event this weekend at our enormous county park, Vasona. Great Blue Herons are nesting there and can be seen and photographed. (I know what you are thinking, but it is NOT boring. These birds are just incredible to see in person - very, very large - they almost look "fake".) Normally I take Sundays off but the last couple of weeks have been too busy. It like being a farmer and the harvest is in. I need to work. But now I also need a break. Later this week, I plan to have a day off, to get a massage, and to go see the baby blue herons. I write about the stuff that's on my mind, and my connections to my subjects as possible. That's "my voice".And along with the break, I'm going to make sure I sink into our big, old leather chair and put my feet up and finish the Realty Blogging book by Richard Nacht and Paul Chaney. I've got the topics, now I need to work on the format.
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