Friday, January 24, 2020

Newbie Tutorial: How to turn a question into a blog post

Wondering how to make one of the questions from this weeks' Favorite Friday work as a blog post, and how using the questions could break you from bloggers block and spawn new ideas in a matter of seconds. Using one of these questions is extremely easy and when I came up with the idea, which probably isn't even a new idea I sat there thinking, "Why haven't I thought about doing this before?"

I'm going only ask once, "Are you ready?" If you're not ready, bookmark this page so that you can come back to it.  Oh and also share the questions below! It's great to know!


Step 1: Finding a question that meets your certain criteria 

You don't need to have certain criteria when finding a question that you want. But if you have a little bit of an idea what you're looking for, it'd be easier than sifting through a sea of questions and this or that stuff. When there are literally tons of questions to choose from. 

Step 2: Compiling a list of questions that yo
u can use

Unless you find the perfect question, you're going to have a list of questions that you can use. They don't always have to fit the criteria exactly, but if you're sure they'll help you think of something use the questions.

There are so many links when it comes to finding a question you can use. The top 5 from earlier are only five of the many sites (when I say many I do mean many) that I have bookmarked for this exact reason. I'm sure there are more sites to find questions, but these are the ones I have bookmarked 
Places to find questions
101 Thought-provoking questions from A Conscious Rethink
60 Thought-Provoking Questions from intelligence
Philosophical Questions from Conversation Starters World
Deep Conversation Starters from  Conversation Starters World
Hypothetical Questions from Conversation Starters World
350 Good Questions to ask from Conversation Starters World
250 Conversation Starters from Conversation Starters World
Would you rather questions from Conversation Starters World
200 Questions to get to know someone from Conversation Starters World
Questions to ask a guy from Conversation Starters World
Questions to ask a girl from Conversation Starters World
Questions to ask your crush from Conversation Starters World
Questions to ask your girlfriend from Conversation Starters World
Questions to ask a guy or girl over text from Conversation Starters World
This or That Questions from Conversation Starters World
Fun questions to ask from Conversation Starters World
Funny questions to ask from Conversation Starters World
50 Questions that will make you think from Women's Health Magazine
180 mind-bending questions that will make you question your existence from Idea Pod
About Me Journal from JRNL
100 get to know you questions from signup genius
Random Questions from Random Lists
Random Conversation Generator from Conversation Starters World
Conversation Starters generator from Her Way Conversation Starters
This or That Question game from Her Way 
Best this or that questions from A New Mode
This or that questions from Lifehacks
120 Either/or questions to ask anyone from Chartcons
500 This or That Questions from Luvze
170 Favorite Things Questions from Paired Life


Step 3: Choosing a question or a group of questions

By now you probably have a list that's lengthy. Now it's the time to be serious, take a step out of the blogger box, and into a reader's box. Imagine you fell upon a blog post that was based on the questions that were asked. If you couldn't imagine reading something based on a question that was asked, delete the question or scratch it off.

Now that you've asked yourself that question and deleted a few questions, it's time to bounce back into blogger mode. It's time to be honest to yourself, are any of the questions left, ones that you can write a lot about if you don't think you can go into detail or don't think you have enough of an opinion on the question. Delete that too.

In the end, you'll eventually have a question or a handful of questions that will work well for a blog post or many blog posts. 

Step 4: Figuring out what kind of blog post you want to make

For those new at being bloggers, those who aren't sure what kind of post you want to make, Smart Passive Income, and Quick Sprout both offer templates that anyone can use (and have used), to write a blog post. If you want a little less of a template but still aren't sure what to write Search Engine Journal has templates. Social Media Examiner just gives a list of 12 blog posts that will drive traffic to your blog post. 

An example would be kind of like my hot cocoa vs. eggnog blog. If someone wanted to turn that question into a blog post, there would be many ideas about how I could drive home that my love for hot cocoa is the choice I should. If I wanted to, I could have written a list and why hot cocoa is better than tea or how to make the perfect hot cocoa. How your blog post spills is all up to you. 


Step 5: Using a template (optional)

You're almost done with writing up the blog post. If you're looking for help when it comes to writing your post both passive income, quick sprout and even Pinterest has had writing templates and outlines. If I find a template or outline that works for the type of blog post I'm using in the infographic, or PDF form, on my computer, in a folder, is helpful, in case I'm out and about with my laptop and want to write a template out for my next blog post. 


Step 6: Write out your blog post

After all of the difficult work is ahead of us, especially if you used a template or outline. You know what you're writing about, and have an idea bout what your blog post is going to look like. Now all you have to do is write out your blog post.

If you're not the kind to write out an outline or use a template and want to allow the posts to flow naturally. Write all that you can about the question(s) on hand. It shouldn't be too complicated to come up with ideas if you got rid of all the questions you don't think you could provide enough information about. 

Step 7: Coming up with a title

Don't use the question as a title ever. It's time to be creative. For instance, if the question you used was something like, "Red decor vs. Red Decor", if your post was a list post of rooms with red decor, your blog post may be called, "10 Pieces of home decor that you need in your home right now"

If you really want to be sure that the title for the blog post you want is one that will generate traffic. I suggest using Share Through's Headline Analyzer, it will grade your title based up the words that are in it.

Step 8: Create a photo for your social media

This is the final step. It's time to create a photo or graphic for your social media accounts. Something that will draw the readers to your blog. Canva has tons of templates to help you with whatever social media graphics and photos are needed for your blog. 

The two coolest things about using a question to spawn your blog post off of are that you can ask the same question to your readers, they're able to interact with you as a blogger. Giving you an idea about what your reader is into and how to gear posts to them as well. Then if your readers interested in learning more about others, they could share the photo, causing you to get more traffic to your blog. 

Hopefully, by now, your writing and blogger's block has disappeared, if it hasn't, I have another post on beating blogger's block. Blogger's block is no joke! 

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