Writer’s block can come at the worst possible moment, like when it’s your turn to host a carnival.  You really want to get away from the InstaCarnival deal and do something special, but what?

Check out Holiday Insights.  They have a big list of unusual holidays.  I had no idea that today, February 24th, is National Tortilla Chip Day.  I mean, you can’t make this stuff up.  Think you could theme your carnival around the humble tortilla chip?  A Doritos® extravaganza? Or maybe just a bunch of corny jokes?

This is a way to do something a little unexpected for your carnival.

• Carnivalize yourself once in a while Blog carnivals are meant to be a collection of posts from other blogs on a specific topic, but what about a Carnival of You?  What about putting together a bunch of your favorite links from your own blog, and slapping a Carnival moniker on it? Why not? Clever Dude has......
• Pay attention to the directions from the manager Blog carnivals are great tools for marketing a blog and getting some free backlinks, but there are few ways more effective at killing the proverbial goose that lays the proverbial golden eggs than ticking off the manager of the carnival by not following his/her directions! If you repeatedly submit spam......
• Theme your blog carnival to get readers to stay The 83rd Carnival of Homeschooling, featured on the homepage of BlogCarnival.com, wrapped the posts up in a check-up theme.  This was very effective and made the carnival a pleasure to read.Bulletized lists are all right, and they serve their purpose, which is to provide links to the on-topic submitted articles......
• 5 ways to promote your blog carnival when you host Here are a few tips on promoting your edition of a blog carnival that you've slaved away at: Ask the bloggers who submitted articles to share the carnival with their readers. This probably is only fair, and some carnival managers are requiring that submitters link back to the carnival or......