In trying to come up with my next post idea, I decided to share one of the tips that I use to spark ideas for both titles and posts. One of the things that I do is to head on over to Google image search, and here's what I'll do.
I'll type in something like Australia's "Great Barrier Reef" just those three words (without quotation marks at first). Then I'll just click through to the slight differences in variations on that term.
So if I click enough, it may morph into "great barrier islands' then down the line "mental barriers" and then "breaking through mental barriers" and BOOM! you've got your post idea as well as a killer post title.
Now I just made that search up as an example and didn't actually perform it, but you get the idea right? All of this helps you avoid the dreaded curse of: I'm-a-lazy-piece-of-shit-who-needs-ai-to-write-my-hive-posts-for-me-because-I-have-no-fucking-creativity-of-my-own.
You know those shitty posts that use the same formula of summarizing the main points in the beginning, then always having an ending paragraph with some variation of "In conclusion..." or its twin "Overall..." It reads like a fucking mechanically-written term paper because that's exactly what it is.
This post title came from the image search I conducted before I started writing this post.
SEARCHING...
It happened because I use a VPN to watch one of my favorite Australian series 'The Block.' I want channel 9 to think I'm a wealthy Aussie, so I chose an upscale zip code (or whatever they call them down under), so they'll think I'm a real Aussie like melbourneswest (who's a great guy BTW), and who I thought lived in Melbourne, Florida until I saw a video of him where He had an Aussie accent so thick, you could slice the German bread I'm going to talk about a few paragraphs down. He's not a #floridaman that's for sure! :)
(Boy, that was a loooong-ass run-on sentence wasn't it? But I don't care, I'm leaving it in so you'll know I wrote all that crap and not AI). :)
So after a number of searches, I received the dreaded "Prove You're a Human" prompt, where they force you to click through some boring ass photos of crosswalks, motorcycles, or stairs (instead of pron, which would really get my attention), and then tell you you're wrong over and over.
And that boys and girls, is where I got the title of this snarky (or is it "cheeky" I can never tell the difference), little post.
Paving over the Rabbit-Hole
You can tell I wrote this instead of a machine, because they'll be little errors in syntax (sin-tax?), context, and just plain common sense, sprinkled throughout this mess like the poppy seeds on the rock-hard bread they served us when I lived in Germany (I kid you not, you could bang a slice on the table, it was that hard.
Those Germans don't have the buttery-soft, sugar and preservative-laden loafs that we gobble up like the sultry Scottish Sirens (that meesterboom likes), but I digress). ;)
The point is to inject some LIFE into your posts! Let me SMELL the pollution in your corroded city. I want to feel the crackle of the crack pipes under your moldy little feet as you take your latest #wednesdaywalk throughout the seedy ghettos of your mind...
So for today's homework kids, I charge you to go in and I don't know, search for something crazy like potato chip farts (or something), and see just how far down the rabbit hole you can go. Keep writing! (on Hive, of course) :)