Feb 19
2009
Beating Bouts of Blogger’s Block
Much of the really cool stuff I would like talk about is top-secret or ongoing research. With this subject matter out of bounds, writing an original blog is not an easy thing to do. The thought of having to craft a good piece of writing and put it out on the web for everyone to see can be daunting process. It is not surprising that even the best of us get occasional bouts blogger’s block.
An Authroratitive Image
- Sometimes you might have the grain of an idea but don’t know how to proceed. Write out your idea and try to grow it from the central idea outwards. Every blog post can have an introduction and a conclusion. If you can get a few ideas on paper then you can start to pad them out to make a blog post.
- Images can be used illustrate and pad out a short blog post. This is not just a cop-out. A well chosen image can illustrate an make the shorter blog post more authoritative.
- Write about anything. This is called free writing. You don’t have to post it. The act of writing itself may free your writing block and give you an idea for your real post of the day.
- Use your experience. Write about a specific experience that happened to you and relate it to another story.
- Look on the web to find a question that you can answer. I find that reading the comments on other people’s blogs can often generate an idea for a blog post.
- Do something else – by doing something other than sitting at the computer hoping for inspiration, going off to do something different can stimulate the galvanic spark of inspiration.
- If you are writing on a regular basis you will know that there are good times to write and bad times to write. Obviously you should write in the good times and not in the bad.
- Impose a deadline on your blog post that will make just make you write something rather than worry about whether it is worthy of a SEMMY.
- If you have gone through this list of tips and are still unable to find your creative muse you could always write a post about about overcoming blogger’s block.
Sir Pumpkin Longshanks
Programmer, Research and Development
