Like exercise, you need to blog every day for it to be effective. I’m really out of shape.

If you’re like me and sometimes have trouble getting the posts out the door, here are 10 sure-fire ways to overcome the dread. It’s all about motivation…

10. Put an ad on CraigsList promising to pay $10 a post to people who want to join your highly successful blog network. Ask for blog samples. Post them on your blog and mock them.

9. Calculate pi to 1000 places, then replace each digit with a word. Edit.

8. Come up with an improbable but highly interesting project that someone else should do. Like mashing up Google Earth with fruitcake re-gifting data.

7. Remember that writing your own blog is marginally better for your sex life than reading someone else’s.

6. Forget that you only have three readers. “Readers” is a state of mind, a stand-in for the passionate, committed fans who love everything you write, who will one day number in the hundreds of thousands. Like your mother, but scalable…

5. If you have Adsense ads on your blog, and you made $.12 yesterday from 100 impressions, open up Excel and figure out that if you had a million impressions, you’d be rich! Just add ten a day and by the time you die you’ll be able to pay for your funeral — as long as you don’t eat.

4. Read a blog by someone who’s much smarter than you and then sneer about how they were raised in privilege (you can make up the details). Contrast with your own stunted childhood.

3. Buy some bot traffic and watch your numbers go up. It’s cheap!

2. Find the latest scoop at Techcrunch, copy it in substance, then backdate the post. Write a comment on Techcrunch about how Mike Arrington stole your story. Your traffic will zoom!

1. Write a top-ten list of how to get over blogger’s block.

See. Told you so.

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