People often ask me how I generate blog post ideas and I’m usually a bit embarrassed to answer this question. My process is really weird. Normal people will tell you to read other blogs and to delve into news and opinion pieces related to your niche and that is fine advice. I do plenty of reading to keep myself inspired. But I also have this uncanny ability to stare at an object, contemplate how I could connect it to my niche and produce a blog post idea from this process. See, I told you I’m weird.

I especially enjoy using parts of the human body for inspiration. I could stare at my big toe and come up with five blog posts ideas. (Really, I can. I tried it before I typed that sentence just to be sure I was being honest.) Weird as it is, I thought this process would come in handy when the organizers of the food blogging conference FoodBlogSouth asked me to come speak about generating blog post ideas. On Saturday, Jan. 25 I’ll be giving a presentation called America’s Next Top Blogger: How Tyra Banks Can Help You Generate Blog Post Ideas. This is a play, of course, on Tyra’s advice to the contestants on her show America’s Next Top Model. Ms. Banks always tells the young aspiring models to model head to toe or “H2T.” At FoodBlogSouth I’ll be giving a  15-minute crash course in what I call blogging H2T. I’m going to show attendees how they can generate 30 food-related blog post ideas by contemplating (or meditating on) different parts of the human body.

I hope you’ll join me at this event. There are plenty of other great reasons to attend FoodBlogSouth other than my weird talk. The conference will feature sessions on photography and food styling, how to turn your blog into a career, multimedia storytelling, and much more. You can view the full agenda online.

FoodBlogSouth 2014 will be held Jan. 24-25 at Rosewood Hall, 2850 19th Street South in Homewood, Alabama. Registration is $175 but See Jane Write Magazine readers can receive a discount by following this link.

*Originally published at SeeJaneWriteMagazine.com on Jan. 6, 2014.