Food for Thought – When You Feel You Have Nothing To Blog About
Do you feel sometime blank from inside, and then you start thinking that you actually have nothing much to express on your blog. You scratch your head and still not come up with any idea what you going write. Its true, mostly this phase comes in early stage of your blogging or it can be at some later stages when you start reading some great stuff of blogsphere or it can be when you come across to read some truly superior blog posts. People do get inspiration from these great blogs writers but still there are few who claim that their confidence gets jolted after reading to these so called big boys of blogging.
Well whatever may be the reason is; I will make an effort here to tell you what to do when you become “Thoughtless”. I will show you how you can go on writing posts on your beloved blog against all odds.
[1] Post a YouTube video
Now to make the things little lighter, posting a YouTube video is a good idea to fill in the blog till the time you sharpen your pen. There are several videos up there on YouTube which you like to see time and again. Noted it down, bookmark them somewhere and share it with your readers whenever you don’t find anything else to write.
Example
I posted this YouTube video about this weird Girl on Human Sling Shot back in Aug 07. I love keep sharing these crazy videos, do you?
[2] Post a Picture
Posting a picture is a good idea. But you can not download any picture which you like and post it on your blog as they may be scaled down and subject to copyright that’s why I rarely use this method, only once or twice I guess so far.
Example
Look at the faces of these guys, some one click them while they were having fun on a roller coaster. Having fun?
[3] Write about any interesting website that you have just discovered.
While surfing the internet you may come across some really good site which are useful and some time creepy, bizarre and amazing. You can introduce it your readers.
Example
I read about this very interesting site on one of my friend Marlene’s. Blog. Magmypic.com, look how easily you can place your picture on a very famous magazine and impress mates.
[4] Next Big thing
Latest advancement in the technology is the niche of so many big blogs. Why can’t we draw a couple of tech posts on our blog, people love to read about what happening hot in technology. I guess you understand what I am trying to say here, still not clear then see this example post.
Example
Here I am explaining about 3G iPhone India Launch. While everyone in the world playing with it; we in India still waiting for its launch, and have to wait until first month of New Year 2009. But what’s that in my hands, have a look at it here.
[5] Talk about your self
Personal branding of your blog is very important, your readers always love to hear about yourself, what you do, what you like, what you dislike, what you play etc etc. It creates a personal bonding between you and your readers and believe me it’s very important. So you can write about your self, your pet, your school days, about your bad habits or about the things which you hate to see around.
Example
You will find many such posts in rambling category. Miscellaneous rambling of a dot com guru are feature posts in which I love to talk about “whats-up” with me. But I want you to go thru this post where I talking about how my son Aditya amazes when I watch cricket on television and dance at every good shot.
Hope the post would help you get some idea about what you going to write today {if you are going thru this thoughtless phase}. So get set and go.
Image by Rachel Sian
Writing about others is the one of the best ways to overcome bloggers’ block. I had a guest post at Inspirit Blog by Debbie T. that tells how Paying It Forward helps in losing Blogger’s Block.
Nice post, Shanker.
Thats an excellent resource & Thought!!
Great going!!
You had a long gap between your previous post and this post. But yes, sometimes I get totally blank as to what to write about. That Maymypic was not bad at all, haha! But my favorite unplanned, unimaginative post was that of a peanut. I was nibbling peanuts while thinking about something to write and then suddenly, I found myself writing about it.
I usually write about post or site i like when i have nothing else to write about.
this can be really helpful in many way 1) you spread the link love (which you get returned when done time to time) 2) you get new ideas topics for your future post and 3rd the most important your readers and subscriber appreciate it when you share other source of informations with them
Well, I have never put too much pressure on myself but reading others’ blog does give me quiet a lot of inspiration for blog topics.
Still it’s a delicious food for thought.
Yan