Comments on: Lack of Ideas? You’ve Got to Be Kidding!

By: Owain

Owain — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:38:42 +0000

I make lists of posts and ideas for new articles at the start of every week. Just write down all the ideas of interesting things you might want to write about. That way when you go to start writing you already know exactly what you should be working on. Finding that initial idea is always the hardest part.

By: SEO Genius

SEO Genius — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:44:50 +0000

This is something i have struggled with from time to time, you just need to sit it out sometimes and definitely as Daniel states be prepared organise your self and ensure you have enough articles already written to cover a week or two just incase.

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Week 19 - The Overview — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:44:27 +0000

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By: Katherine

Katherine — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:55:11 +0000

This definitely sounds similar to “writer’s block” – both myths in my option. The other day I felt blank about what to write in my blog and I came up with something that ended up being pretty decent. If you really look, you can turn almost everything into a post related to your topic. The other day, I wrote an internet marketing related post about the Manny Ramirez of the Boston Red Sox!

By: Jennifer (Et Tu?)

Jennifer (Et Tu?) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:22:39 +0000

I’m so glad to hear someone saying this! It’s been my experience as well that there are a lot more solutions out there for writer’s block than people imagine.

One thing I did that opened up a floodgate of bloggable ideas (and traffic to my site) is to make a list of things of things that I’ve learned in the past 10 years related to the topic of my blog, *including* those ideas that seem “too obvious to post about” (that last part is key). I started writing posts about things I had learned that seemed to me to be as obvious as saying the sky is blue…yet those turned out to be some of my most popular posts! Now that I think about it, it makes sense — if it’s something I didn’t know at some point in my life, there must be other people out there who currently don’t know about it as well.

Now that I’ve silenced that voice in my head that says “that one’s too obvious” when I write down post ideas, I’ve found that my problem now is organizing my ideas list because it’s so long.

Thanks for a great post.