Get Prompted in 2012!

So far it’s been an extra special month of big announcements and new features to make Duolit even more awesome in 2012 (I know, we didn’t think it was possible either!). We’ve got our first Reader Mailbag in the works (be sure to send in your questions!), a guest post contest (friendly reminder: the deadline to submit your post is this Friday, Jan. 27th!), plus a new thrice-weekly posting schedule, monthly giveaways for our awesome Indie Ninjas, and link-up posts for you to share your thoughts with other Duolit readers.

Well, prepare yourself, because as if all those things weren’t awesome enough, we’ve got one more new feature to announce this month…

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Introducing: Duolit Indie Inspirations

Do you sometimes struggle to come up with topics for your blog? We know the feeling. You want to make weekly updates to your blog, but you can’t think of the perfect topic to write about. There are a few services out there that provide prompts, but we’ve decided it’s time to put together some Duolit inspirations to help all of us fill our blogs with quality content, insightful thoughts and helpful information.

We’ve got three steps to make this a reality.

Step One: Brainstorming

If we all put our heads together and throw out a few of our favorite blog topics in the comments of this post. We welcome ideas in all categories from silly things (what’s your favorite kind of sandwich?) to author-related things (what made you decide to become a writer?) to creative short story prompts (“she set the glass of lemonade on the table and made an announcement…”). Whatever you can conjure up, we want to hear it!

Step Two: Make a list

This Friday (January 27th) we will announce the four prompts we’ve selected for the month of February. If your prompt isn’t selected, no worries, we’re going to keep a collection of everyone’s suggestions. So if yours isn’t on this month’s list, it might be used next month! We will keep taking new prompt suggestions in a once-monthly blog and might even throw in a few of our own.

Step Three: Get to writing!

Throughout the month of February we hope you guys will use our prompts to write your own blogs. You can tackle all four prompts, or just choose one or two that appeal to you. Either way, we’ll have a link-up post for each topic so you guys can share your blogs. We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Coming up next: 5 Easy Steps to Setting your Writing Goals

Join us back on the blog Wednesday for our monthly writing post outlining five easy steps to setting your 2012 writing goals (if you haven’t already!).

Later days,

- Shannon

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