Do you suffer with writers block?

Do you struggle to get your words out and put forward your ideas or is it just because you can’t find the topics to blog about? In this post I want to present some ideas and links for helping you overcome your blocks.

My problem is topic ideas. What to write about. I started this blog with the grand idea of helping other Church Techies out and that still remains – but I can only take it as far as my own experience and knowledge have reached. Equally, I may have gone through an experience but at the time of wanting to write it doesn’t spring to mind.

If this is you then here are some resources that have helped.

Secondly, don’t let yourself  be too constrained by your own blog. In researching this post I have come to realise that there are very few blogs out there that limit themselves to their target market.

So what about ideas – what can you write?

• 45 Blog Post Ideas that Always Generate Buzz
• 101 Great Posting Ideas that will make your Blog Sizzle
• 10 Killer Post Ideas

I like these three particular posts because they not only standalone, the blog authors have also written a lot more on the subject of content creation. On top of this the posts are in three sizes depending on the amount of time you have to read.

• 65 Bite Sized Web Marketing Tips – whilst not a link to content creation, the ideas presented are all valid towards helping you focus on what you want.
• 100 Blogger Viewpoints … – again not content creation per se, but Adam has presented a list of what “bloggers are” and this allows you to see you aren’t alone and perhaps even explain why you blog if you haven’t clearly identified why.
• 77 Insights – a listing of reasons why people read your blog or want to read your blog. Again these insights just might trigger a thought about how to style your posts or a subject you could write on.
• How to write great content – Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger is a prolific writer and he’s always been willing to share – this post is just one of his better ones that I frequently refer to.
• Traffic generation tips presents 30 suggestions for driving traffic your way. They don’t naturally lend themselves to helping you overcome writers block, but if you know you have a lot of traffic or increasing traffic then that thought alone might persuade you that you need to write.

So now you have ideas to write about and even some reasons to write, but what about getting out of that rut? I’m told that in the Australian Outback there are signs warning you to “choose your rut carefully as you could be in it for a while“.

• Hack your way out of writers block – some fantastic suggestions here from doing a chore to writing crap. yes really.
• Language is a virus a page full of links, ideas, generators and so on for the struggling writer.

Enjoy.