Top 25 Ways to Beat the Blog Writer’s Block
Beat blog writer's block
I’ve always wanted to be a writer and one day, when I was about 10 years old, I took a brand new pen and a brand new notebook, feeling that just by picking these tools I had won half of the battle already. As time was passing by and the pages were still blank, the smile on my face was turning more and more into a frown. If you’ve also experienced the writer’s block, here are some ideas that will get your creative juices flowing.
1. Write down all your blog posts ideas as soon as you have them – they tend to disappear in only a few seconds.
2. Run a contest.
3. Write “How To” articles.
4. Get ideas from the top marketing experts, not necessarily from your industry, by subscribing to their newsletter; even well written spam messages can be useful sometimes 
5. Find a theme, and then write a series of articles on that theme. As an example, you could “borrow” a top 10 list from the net (“Top 10 ways to be more productive”?) and then write 10 small blog posts (an item per post) instead of including them all in a large, boring, single blog post.
6. Write blog articles that respond to the news (not necessarily industry-related news).
7. Get inspired using an online idea generator. Just type “online idea generator” in Google’s search box and see what comes up.
8. Solicit guest articles.
9. Publish informational graphs or images.
10. Write down people’s questions on other blogs, and then write an article that answers them. Don’t forget to post a link to your article on those blogs.
11. Discuss new and innovative things in the industry.
12. Scan the best articles on the industry-related blogs, and then republish a paragraph or two from the original source, linking to the original article.
13. Compile a collection of resources and links on a subject.
14. Save all the comments from your visitors / customers to a text file, and then use them as ideas for new blog posts.
15. Visit a place you’ve never visited before (a park, a museum, etc) and then go back home and get blogging.
16. Post an interesting, intriguing photo and tell your readers all there is to know about it.
17. Interview an expert over email.
18. Mix things in the industry with fun stuff, like “What search engine would Snow White use and why?”
19. Read your competitors’ blogs.
20. Create lists such as this one – most people love them!
21. Run a random image search on Flickr.
22. Write down a few questions that a potential client would ask when considering your product, and then write a blog post that answers them. Have a friend or relative help you on this.
23. Ask questions on Twitter, etc and then use the answers to write your article.
24. Share one of your experiences (be it recent or not).
25. If all of the above fail, recycle previously written content.
Just make sure that the result of your work is great / funny / engaging / worthwhile / controversial – don’t make it too salesy.