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BritMums Blogging Prompts: Pleasure

Another week is soon upon us. For many of us, one more week and then it's the first half-term of the school year! Can you believe how fast 6 weeks has flown by? This week I read a really interesting post by the delightful Nicki Cawood at Curly & Candid. In it, she pondered from where the pressure to blog comes from. It's a great question and one that we hope, here at BritMums HQ, that you consider with care. We hope NO ONE feels the PRESSURE to blog. We all should be blogging because we have something to say and want to share it.

BritMums Video Blogging Challenge

Last week we were ELATED to see FOUR bloggers dive head first into video blogging with our Video Blogging Challenge! Outstanding! See, it's not so bad after all!

This week we're going to give you a simple topic to talk about. Yes, it may require you to actually be ON CAMERA but it's an easy topic to talk about. If you're feeling particularly inspired, you could even film other things to represent how you feel about the topic. The possibilities are endless. Without further ado...this week's video blogging challenge:

BritMums Blog Prompts: Bests

Well, it would seem that the BritMums community is quite enjoying our Blogging Prompts! Last week, 39 bloggers shared their posts inspired by the blogging prompts which pleases us no end. We're seeing some amazing writing, being shown a bit more about individual bloggers and finding some great new blogs to follow as well. Shall we all have a big group cuddle now as well?

This week we're providing you with another TWO prompts: one blogging related and one personal. Use your creativity to make these themes happen for you. We hope to give you a bit of inspiration to kick off your week. Let us know what you think in the comments below...we're always open to suggestion you know!

BritMums Blog Prompt of the Week

The time has come for another dose of blogging inspiration courtesy of the BritMums Blogging Prompt of the Week. Once again, we're giving you a choice of a personal prompt and a blogging prompt to get your creative juices flowing. We're loving that people are starting to be inspired by this feature and we're doing our best to get to all of your posts, comment and promote them as much as we can. Be sure to Tweet us your link when you post it (@BritMums) and link up your post below to share with the blogosphere.

• Personal Prompt: My biggest pet peeve is ________________________.
• Blogging Prompt: Facebook or Twitter? If you could use only ONE to promote your blog, which would you use and why?

We hope you'll find something to write about with one or the other (or BOTH!) of these prompts! Shout when you've got a post to promote...we're always happy to "pimp" our BritMums members. Now, have a think and turn on your laptop/computer/iPad and get to writing.

Ready, steady...BLOG!

~Karin

 

BritMums Blog Prompt of the Week

Well, we am pleased to report that our little BritMums Blogging Prompt of the Week seems to be gaining in popularity! This makes us very happy at BritMums HQ. So happy that we might need to break out the cake! Want some?

On the first blogging prompt of the week we had a "blogging" theme (If I could start my blog over, what would I do differently?) and last week we tackled "I cannot live without..." which was a personal prompt. We thought we would push the boat out this week and give you TWO options for the Blogging Prompt of the Week. A "blogging" prompt and a "personal" prompt. You're welcome to do one or the other or BOTH if you're really an over-achiever! I hope this will inspire you and get you writing from the heart. Drum roll please...

• Blogging Prompt: The best blog advice I have ever received is__________.
• Personal Prompt: If I wouldn't be judged harshly, I would say ________ out loud.

There you have it! Now let your imagination take over, have a good think and let your words flow through your fingers onto the keyboard. Link up your post below to share it with the blogosphere and be sure to Tweet us (@BritMums) so we can support you as well. We'll be visiting all of the posts throughout the week as well so tidy up and have some tea ready for us!

Ready, steady, blog...

 

BritMums Blog Prompt of the Week

Week two of our Blog Prompt of the Week is ready. We saw 12 of you take on our first blogging prompt (If I could start my blog again, what would I do differently?) which was fabulous. There were some really great thoughts on what, if anything, you might change about your blog. Many of the bloggers who took up the challenge found that they really wouldn't change much of anything which is comforting!

This week, we thought we'd delve into your personal lives for some inspiration. This week's prompt then is:

I cannot live without...

It could be a thing, a person, a place, a routine...anything. Have a good old think and try to come up with just ONE thing that you simply could not live without! All you have to do to take part in the BritMums Blogging Prompt challenge is use the prompt, write a post and publish it on your own blog and then pop back to this post to add your post url to the Linky below. Then visit some of the other bloggers who will be joining in as well and gain some valuable insight into your fellow bloggers. Have fun and happy blogging!

 

BritMums Blog Prompt of the Week

At BritMums we like to help out where we can. We know how stressful your lives can be -- with the school run, working (either in the home or out), maintaining your household, cooking, cleaning, ironing (what is that anyway), finding the time to blog can be a challenge to say the least.

Do you ever find, when you finally acquire that precious "me" time to sit at the laptop or computer that you end up staring at the screen with full-on bloggers block? Well, BritMums is here for you. Starting this week we will kick off the week with a Blog Prompt. It is a bit of inspiration for you should that "Bloggers Block" kick in when you next sit down to write. We'll give you the week to have a go at the prompt. Once you've written your post, pop back and link it up below to share it with the BritMums community! Simples!