There’s a nice post on MakeYouGoHmm.com that lists 49 jump starts if you’re staring at a blank screen trying to think of a blog post. Some of his suggestions have worked for me: reviewing a book, for example. I’d add the following:
- Your obvious is your talent. Find something that you do everyday that may not be obvious to other people and write about that.
- Lists provoke thoughts. For me, at least, taking a topic and then writing a list seems to generate new ideas that hadn’t occurred to me before.
- Ask why. Pick a topic and speculate on why it happens.
- Ask how. Ditto but how!
- Interview someone.
- Start a campaign. Find something objectionable (in my case lazy writing) and keep citing examples of it until change occurs.
- Find a role model. Who writes well? Who do you admire? Praise them. The media is full of negative stories but it’s your blog, so write a positive one.
- Expand on someone else’s idea. The blogosphere is a conversation. Take something (with attribution) and add your own original thoughts. Like this post.
- Cartoons. Sketches, diagrams. Anything that makes your point without words. (See my previous post ‘A picture is worth a thousand words‘).
- Build on a phrase. Sometimes a small phrase pops into my head and it inspires a whole article. Listen to your inner voice.
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Interesting to note the way you wrote this title. That is something I would put in my list of things to avoid, but you should have a good reason to have made it this way. Let me explain.
The title says “10 more way[s] to crack (blogger) writer’s block”. This “(blogger)” gave me the initial impression that it was an alternative to “crack” instead of “writer”. That’s because I usually see the alternative written after the word, never before.
Any special reason for putting it before?