Have an awesome blogger in your life? This is what they want for Christmas.
Disclaimer one: This will make (vague) sense and be (mildly) amusing to bloggers. If that’s not your bag, this post might on buying for the hard to buy for might be more helpful.
Disclaimer two: These things may not actually exist or be otherwise completely unattainable.
Hands-free, water-proof, voice-to-text Dictaphone
The best blog posts are written in the shower or while driving. Zinging one-liners, the funniest jokes, clever headlines and inspired ideas. You think that their sheer brilliance will etch them forever into your brain. But they are lost, down the drain with the soapy water and permanently parked in garages. What if they could be captured via dictation? And then neatly sent back to the author in an email or SMS? Would blog-land change forever or would we just discover that our awesome shower posts are only brilliant in retrospect through rose-coloured regret. Disclaimer three: Not entirely my idea – was chatting about this with the ridiculously hot and funny Kate from Loveface. If you make such a device, please send me one and send her the credit.
Inspiration Switch
Every writer I know struggles to find time to write. But then sometimes the stars align and you find yourself in front of the computer, with hours to spare, no-one around and chores (mostly) done. In all that glorious space, I find the inspiration tap runs dry. It’s when the cursor blinks and the seemingly endless supply of ideas stops. A switch would be very helpful. It should also come with a timer function. So that the 3am inspiration strikes at a more respectable hour.
A supply of free, awesome stock photos that no-one else knows about it.
You know you want this. You also know you’d end up blogging about it and it would stay secret for about 2 seconds.
A patient photographer who knows to take about 20 quick snaps and a phone with enough memory to hold them
I’m lucky to have the former in my seven year (I’m raising an Instagram husband) but I really need to do something about the phone space and the ritual of deletion that precedes every #everydaystyle selfie.
An endless supply of outdoor feature walls with excellent lighting
I had to giggle when I went out to lunch with a group of beautiful blogging buddies and a good deal of time was spent sourcing “perfect” walls as photo backdrops. It’s a thing.
Confidence in a bottle
Arguably already attainable in the form of Veuve Clicquot. However, this would specifically address the times when you feel your writing is terrible and will never be anything but terrible. When the green eyed monster bites hard and it feels like everyone else around you is killing it. Also helpful for when Yoast tells you your writing “needs improvement” because it doesn’t understand your (clearly awesome) writing devices.
A beautiful new theme
That installs itself without too much faffing and allows your blog to instantly look amazing, professional and just the right amount of pretty without hours of frustration and tears.
Book Deal (with a lovely publisher, a great editor and a time to write it well)
Enough said.
What’s on your bloggy Christmas list?
This is the ultimate bloggy gift guide – love it! I’m with you on the phone memory, except my phone is full of food rather than fashion photos 🙂 Hope all your Christmas wishes come true!
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It would be lovely if all of those came true! Have a brilliant Christmas.
YES! I’ll take all of those thanks very much Santa 🙂 xx
Santa would be extra popular if he delivered.
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Time. You forgot time. I never have any time to actually write these days!
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Oh my goodness yes – time snatched from every corner at the moment.
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So where can I submit this list! Love this post x
We’ll set up a petition to Santa and leave all interested blogger names 🙂
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Haha, this list made me laugh! Would have to agree with all of them!
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Would be kind of nice wouldn’t it?
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Hahaha. Yes.
I especially want “A supply of free, awesome stock photos that no-one else knows about it.” Is that too much to ask for?
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But you know you’d end up telling people 🙂
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Yes to all of this! Love this list ? I’d particularly like the book deal ?
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You’ll get it!
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I’ll take in-built troll filters, too, please!
Little electric impulses that zap Mena fingers.
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Mean fingers that was supposed to be.
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Yes Yes YES! Love this list. I want it all. 🙂
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Me too. We’re not greedy Santa!
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I guess a waterproof case and something like the Rev app is the closest to number one! Though recently my ideas have been while driving. I should stop putting my phone on the power saving low battery so I can use hey siri and get at least the ideas recorded!
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Siri has a lot of difficulty understanding me
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Haha yep, I’ll take all of the above!
Hope Santa delivers 🙂
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Thanks you have saved me so much time… all I have to do now is print your post, pop it in my special red ‘To Santa’ envelope and find a post office. Christmas morning is going to be be FANTASTIC 🙂 #IBOT
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Hahaha. I hope so!
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Yes! this is such a great list. If I had to choose one, I’d like a beautiful new theme done and installed. I have been trying to work on this all year with my husband technical help and havn’t really gotten very far I am feeling quite indecisive about what ‘new look’ to choose….. so santa, if you are listening… I’d like this one please!!! 😉
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It always seems easy until you get into it and then there’s a trick or two.
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What a great list! I hope it all comes true.
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Wouldn’t that be nice.
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I would like blinkers that can block all the awesomeness out there and just keep me on track, trotting along on my own race track. x
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Ah yes – I think we could all use them in our stockings.
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OMG! Yes to ALL of these!
Now we just have to hope Santa is a reading 🙂
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Love this Robyna – especially “An endless supply of outdoor feature walls with excellent lighting” – hubster and I have seriously been talking about how he can do this for my Christmas present this year!!!!
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Best Christmas present ever.
All on my wish list Robyna….just needed a little help clarifying them…now where to source them 🙂
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Let me know when you find the shop! 🙂
LOVE this!! Absolutely brilliant and spot on. I’ll have one of each 😉
Wouldn’t it be lovely?
I would say a big yes please to all of that. And if I could also add thousands of grateful and adoring readers, Santa please, my list would be complete.
Thanks Santa – I’ll have a few of them too 😉
HECK YES TIMES A MILLION.
I also want a “as funny as Hugzy” button 🙂
Yes to all of the above! A new theme would be fab but I am so SCARED of moving things all around!
I know – you end up realising how emotionally invested you are in your blog don’t you?
Haha, yes please, especially the Inspiration Switch, mine broke this year and seems to be irreparable!!
#teamIBOT
Wouldn’t it be nice to just turn it off and on?
YES!!!!! I want all the things! This is perfect!!
Me too 🙂
This is perfect! I would take the dictation device one step further and actually request a brain to screen transfer device, 2which I could play in to my ear it would automatically download my blog posts from my brain directly in to my computer! I always find my inspiration strikes as I’m trying to fall asleep, so being able to ply that in my ear when I hope in to bed and download my thoughts would be amazing!!! I give it a few years yet before that’s available on the market, though!
And don’t let the government get a hold of it 🙂 There’s a sci-fi novel right there.