Grrrrr…
I’m going nuts. This hasn’t happened in a long time. I’ve been sitting at the computer for the last 2-3 hours wondering what to write about. I’m the gal who says blogging is easy, 1-2-3, done in 20 minutes.
I admit lately it’s been taking me more than hour to post. Some days longer. And I call myself The Blog Squad…I’ve even got a great little package you can have called Time Saving Tips for Smart Bloggers, audio, transcript, PDF handouts. You can solve your blogging blues with all the tips in this program.
Have I changed my mind about how nifty blogging is? No. Am I stuck? Yep.
Solution? Start writing about where I’m at, and then tie it in with something useful and relevant to readers.
Source of problem? I’ve been blogging so much lately for my clients that I’m dried up and stale for my own blog.
So what? I’ll bet some of you have the same problem or similar. You give your all to your clients, then when it comes time to do your own content marketing you’re as dry as toast without butter.
It’s no wonder the cobbler’s children have no shoes.
What to do? Just do it, just start writing and see what comes out. You may surprise yourself. One of my clients tells me he doesn’t write that much anymore. He finds it easier to hook up the Web cam and post a video clip. Hmmm…wait a sec.
Just by starting to write, I had to trace my thought processes to find what I usually do when I am stuck. This time I diagrammed it out using SmartDraw.
It’s interesting no? Much easier to show than tell, and you can clearly see my four favorite resources for breaking bloggers’ block.
I will now go walk my talk and come up with some good blog posts.
What resources do you use to find ideas? Hit the comment link and share.
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Dr. Krakoff, just a note to let you know how much I enjoy your posts daily, even on days when you suffer from ‘Blogger’s Block’. Your writing is refreshingly uncomplicated, and I like the algorithms you create to illustrate your thought process. Hope to get inspired by you enough to start writing one of these days.
Two sources for blog ideas: Go to Google’s Wonder Wheel, a great tool for article ideas. Here is how it works:
* Type in your key word(s) in the Google search box and hit enter
* Scroll down the left navigation bar and click on Wonder Wheel – which shows your key word at the center with spokes going to related words, which then lead to other words.
What’s cool is that every time you click on a related word or phrase, news with the keyword appears alongside so that you learn what’s being written about the topic at that moment in time.
Next try Rack and Write. Never been there? This site is a real hoot. You enter some key words and the site comes back with hundreds of potential blog titles. As the site points out: “this is a brainstorming tool, so some of the sentences will sound wacky.”