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.

• 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......
• Carnival of Personal Finance cutting the BlogCarnival.com cord? Last week when I tried to submit my article to the Carnival of Personal Finance over at BlogCarnival.com, I found out that this carnival was "inactive." At one point the carnival I manage, the Carnival of Debt Reduction, was in danger of becoming inactive over there because I hadn't updated......
• 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......
• Consider choosing quality over quantity Free Money Finance has started up a new blog carnival that turns its back on quantity.  The Best of Money Carnival, by definition, is limited to only ten posts each week.  FMF even throws in some perqs:  $1,000 donated to charity for the best post of the year and for......