These are some of the things that I do that help me with blogging every week.

Text files with the codes for memes. I have a folder on my desktop that has all the HTML for the memes in which I take part weekly. Some bloggers will provide code, others might provide an image, and others let you figure it out. If you participate in the Quick Takes at ConversionDiary.Com every week, Jen gives you the necessary code and you just have to save it as a text file. I run WordPress on my domain so I can generate necessary code even though I know enough HTML to write my own. It’s not pretty but it works. 🙂

Bookmark folders.I mostly run Chrome so I usually don’t do this one in exactly this form, but I would if I did almost everything in Firefox. In Chrome, I bookmark anything that looks interesting and then just look at any bookmarks from the last few days when I’m writing my Quick Takes or doing my Five Favorites.

Create drafts for the week ahead of time. On Sunday night, I do my Simple Woman’s Daybook entry and then create drafts for the other memes I take part in during the week. I tend to be up late so I do get some quiet while working on them. 🙂 Having the drafts allows me to just plug content into the correct draft. If something happens like the Pope’s interview last week and I want to respond to it, I just cut and paste the text for the drafts into EditPad and move some stuff around. I wouldn’t worry about it except that my URL’s are generated when I save something as a draft.

Read other blogs. Sometimes, someone will write something that needs to be shared. If I wasn’t in the habit of reading probably 50+ blogs, I’d definitely have some problems finding content. Thankfully, not all of them blog daily and I have a feed reader (Bloglovin) that creates a list of posts for me. The other benefit of reading other blogs: if you leave comments, the other bloggers might visit you and you’ll find some interesting people.

Join memes and link-ups. This kind of goes back to #1 (where I tell you to store the codes in *.txt files) but many times, these give you a topic or a framework for something about which you can write. The Simple Woman’s Daybook and Blogging with a Purpose are two that I enjoy. There are scores of others. They also help you find other like-minded bloggers and expose your blog to people you might not otherwise get to know.

Go love up Hallie and the others.