No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog | 
 enlarge | Author: Margaret Mason
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 57198
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 032144972X
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780321449726
ASIN: 032144972X
Publication Date: August 21, 2006
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Product Description
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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 What you had for lunch might be more interesting December 22, 2008
Anamika
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 25 Pages of Interesting Ideas, But 103 Pages Too Long July 2, 2008
A.Trendl HungarianBookstore.com (Glen Ellyn, IL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In "No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog" by Margaret Mason, we get as advertised.
I blog a lot, on everything from running to Hungarian recipes, as well as my thoughts on life. Arguably, my blogs are like 99% of the ones which are out there. Except, rarely is my lunch discussed. I tossed my lunch, if you will.
The audience is the new blogger who is not a writer by trade. My friend who is chronicling his weight loss adventure in a blog, brand-new to blogging in general, might find this modestly useful before he quickly graduates into veteran status.
Was there anything I could learn?
Yes. Two things. One: I'm on the right track. Two: Anything, but lunch, goes. Pardon me. 2.5 things. The point five is that there is not much here for experienced writers and bloggers.
Anything goes? Which parts of anything? All of them.
* Hobbies (that would be my running blog, but could be your praying mantis kit).
* Food (that's my Hungarian recipe blog, but could be your ice cream tasting blog)
* Books (my personal blog does a lot of this, with reviews just like this one, but could be about bookbinding too)
Where the book runs aground is its self-indulgence. 128 pages? Why not 25? It is laid out like a bathroom book, with more white space than is needed. I read it in two hours. I was lucky enough to borrow my copy from a library, and recommend you do likewise.
The veteran blogger will gain a thing or two from reading other blogs, and richer books like Blogging For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)). Not here.
Anthony Trendl
AnthonyTrendl.blogspot.com
 A Lot Of Good Ideas July 2, 2008
Thomas W P Slatin (Schoharie, NY USA)
A lot of really good ideas are presented here. The author loses focus and creativity around numbers 98 to 100, but aside from that, there is still a lot to take in.
 Surprisingly helpful treatment of a trendy topic February 25, 2008
H. Grove (Maryland, USA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Margaret Mason's No One Cares What You Had for Lunch promises us 100 Ideas for Your Blog. This is the sort of trendy topic that tends to inspire writers to try to make a quick buck by whipping through and capitalizing on a subject's popularity without having to put in a lot of hard work. In this case, however, Ms. Mason has done a fantastic job of addressing the topic of blogging in a manner that will be of great benefit to her readers and is fun to read.
The suggestions in each chapter are divided primarily by the amount of time they're likely to take. Some suggestions involve individual posts. Some tackle your overall approach to your blog. Others deal with ongoing projects within your blogging, or your relationship to other blogs and bloggers. The entries are short and pithy, much like blog entries themselves, serving as great examples as well as instructions. Many of them further include real-world examples from various blogs (the author's and those belonging to other bloggers) that entertain and amuse while perfectly demonstrating Ms. Mason's points.
Ms. Mason has a great handle on the kind of posts that intrigue and interest people. Better than any particular individual suggestion, what I took away from this book is a general feel for the kinds of personal posts and details that readers find fascinating and why.
 Blogging has arrived it seems December 27, 2007
Hesz Roland (Hungary)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
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, you got an embarrassing memory that makes you cry and curl up? Post it!
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 much.
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