This is my experience when I started this blog about a month ago… and I’m pretty sure you have a similar experience:
You had a great idea for a blog that you think you can maintain. You start a blog, customize it and tweak it to your liking. Then you post an awesome article. That’s day one.
Day two you post another article. Sometimes maybe you even post 2 of them.
And the same thing happens on day3 and throughout the first week… or maybe 2.
But then the 3rd week come and as usual, you open your blog compose page only this time… you have no idea what to write anymore!
The Writer’s Block Strikes
You stare at the blank screen for about 30 minutes trying to dig up something from that brain of yours but it looks like there’s really nothing worth writing about for that day. So give up.
3 days pass and finally a great inspiration struck you. You rushed to your blog dashboard and post about it. The next time this happens, it would take 5 days. Then perhaps 10 days and so on.
Soon enough, you blog’s content is old and stale. Never updated because you never know what to write. Pretty soon, you’ll give up the blog entirely.
And that’s why you see a lot of old junk blogs that’s never been updated on the internet. Sure, some of them are meant to spam but I think there’s a major portion that’s really well-intentioned.
The owners of the blogs are struck by any writer’s arch-enemy: the writer’s block. If only there’s a message that warns people who are creating a blog that says something like this, "Warning! Creating a blog is easy but maintaining one is work.
How To Overcome The Writer’s Block
Wouldn’t it be nice to have your brain juice constantly flowing? Here’s what I’ve done to keep the new ideas coming: (I write one post about once every 2 days for 9 blogs and an article a day which I distribute to article directories for each of those blogs. And that’s not including the actual content I’m selling).
- Momentum is key, not speed. If you want to succeed in the long term, you’ve got to keep the fire burning. Feed all your wood to the fire at once might get you bigger fire - but it will last only so long. Spread it out a little. Schedule a post for every 2 or 3 days and not anymore frequent than that.
- Bring a little notebook with you everywhere you go. You never know when an inspiration strikes you. Record the headline down or you’ll forget what you thought of by the end of the day.
- Go exercising. Believe it or not, this really keeps your brain juices flowing. Exercising makes your body transport more oxygen to your brain, which puts your brain in overdrive. In fact, some of the best entrepruneurs claim they get their best ideas during a workout - Eben Pagan being one of them.
- Keep yourself up-to-date in your industry. Read other blogs and visit forums often. People are always posting about new things you never thought of writing in their blog and forums are full of questions from solution-seekers. Write a nice little article and direct them to it.
Hope those tips can help you keep your blog content as fresh as the first day it was created. That’s how I’ve been doing it for the past 8 years and I’m sure you can too.
P.S. If you anticipated that you will not have the opportunity to post in the coming days, you can compose those posts first and schedule them to be released at a later date.
P.P.S Leave a comment here if you have any awesome ideas I haven’t listed here. I’d really love to have more brain juices flowing.
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