Day 16 of National Blog Posting Month, and I've passed the half-way mark. At least I was able to get this far before losing inspiration and motivation, right?

I think, to round out much of the rest of this month's posts, I will have to bring in the "big guns" to help spur some inspiration.

With a gift certificate I received from Barnes & Noble for my birthday (thanks Mom and Dad!), I recently bought a couple of books that had been on my wish list for a while:

No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog

Writer's Workbook: Daily Exercises for the Writing Life

Here's my heads-up to you, readers (and a way to hold myself accountable, by writing down my goal) that I'll be working on some exercises from one or both of these books over the next couple of weeks.

-Em