Stuck in a rut? Have a blog post you just can’t pound out? When I get stuck, I work down this list until I find something I want to write about.

•Google News
•Google Alerts
•The Daily Beast
•Print magazines
•TV
•Radio
•Other blogs
•http://www.Drupal.org
•Drupal Planet
•Emails I have received.
•Questions a customer asked me.
•Write an update of an old post. Recycle baby!
•Read through the comments of my previous posts.
•Examine the pros and cons of an issue, topic, update, upgrade, and so on.
•Interview people. People are busy, but everyone wants to spread their ideas. As busy as I am, I have never turned down an interview request, ever.
•Books. Apply general ideas from books in a specific way that’s relevant to your niche.
•Make a top 10, top 50, top 100 list. Then, over the course of several blog posts, write about each item on the list. Or, interview someone about each of them.
•Use http://www.search.twitter.com to find posts that are relevant to my business. Write about what other people are talking about.
•Write a joke post making fun of, well, anything.
•Do some original research. This is great for link bait!
•Debunk a myth.
•Write a how-to for beginners in my industry.
•Write a funny story about how I first found out about my industry.
•Write about what I learned at a trade show.
•Create a best-of list of great blog posts from that day.
•Write a FAQ for my niche.
•Blog about an event as it happens.