Some Reflections On Blogging Inspiration

3 August, 2009 - 07:30 AM - 10 Comments

As a blogger who is approaching my first year of blogging this month, I can tell me readers and fellow bloggers that blogging is much harder than even I previously thought. Unlike a personal diary blog where you can just hash about anything like you start to reach points where after doing more than a thousand posts across my six blogs I find it harder to find a new topic or new idea to write about.

Sure anyone can just hash our a variation of an already popular and published item, announcement or review of something, but try coming up with new and originally written content from start to finish without Googling information about something and you will get a feel for how hard it is.

My poetry blog seems to be the only one where I can churn out new and creative poems without falter, and with no research about news articles, science or technology. But even with doing my random twitter poems, I have to look up some word submissions in the dictionary.

Some weeks or days I will have enthusiasm and creativity flow freely, some nights I can stay up late and churn out four or five blog posts to queue for the upcoming week, but other nights I struggle to write a single article or find a topic or product that I feel like writing about.

Stay the course if you run through these peaks and valleys, I have read that they are very common. Blog when inspiration strikes and not to churn out a post for the heck of it. Your posts will be of better quality and you will be happier if you don’t feel stressed and pressured to constantly get a post published.

-Dragon Blogger

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Working in the IT Industry for over 10 years and specializing in web based technologies. Dragon Blogger has unique insights and opinions to how the internet and web technology works. An Avid movie fan, video game fan and fan of trying anything and everything new.

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Ameya

Thank you - that is such good advice! Never thought of it that the shortened url could be a turn-off !

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Justin Germino

I am an Information Security specialist as my day job, so thinking about web security and practices comes 2nd nature to every interaction online I do and interface with. Glad the advice helped, much easier to see your site now :)

As someone who has only written 2 (yes two) blogs and is frantically thinking of the next topic, I can tell you this is good advice: "Blog when inspiration strikes and not to churn out a post for the heck of it."!!
Thanks, nice post.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, a tip though is you should always leave true blog url and not a bit.ly link. The 301 redirect loses some PR value crossing the Bit.ly redirect and you don't get as much link back juice. It also hides the URL and looks deceitful, I know I had to check the link to make sure it lead to a good site.

Klaus @ TechPatio

I feel the exact same way about programming, which is what I do for a living - mostly. Sometimes you just can't code for whatever reason, it's crap! Other times you can't stop coding and doesn't mind doing a 12 hour shift because you're on a roll :)

I've been blogging "seriously" about a month now, and I've also noted that some days I just didn't felt like writing at all, so I try to avoid it. Those days I spend reading other blogs and learn new stuff, mostly.
.-= Klaus @ TechPatio´s last blog ..Help Me Test This System: Get Thousands Of Website Visitors For Free =-.

dragonblogger

When I used to do Shell Scripting in Unix (ksh, bash..etc) I was the same way, I would write hundreds of lines of code in a flash, and other times I struggled to come up with stuff as well. I think inspiration comes with anyone who has a hobby or talent to "create" anything, artists lack inspiration to paint and it comes in flashes, musicians have trouble writing songs and sometimes they can't stop...etc

Damien

I can relate. I'm posting far less than I used to, but that isn't proving to a bad thing. People need a day or so sometimes to catch up on their reading. Nice post!
.-= Damien´s last blog ..The Upside of Pills =-.

Yeah, I hear that, with me working 60 hours a week at my day job, I am just lacking the energy to stay up late and do blog posts, but I still manage to eek them out as often as possible. Still doing 1 per day, but often doing two at a time, or several on one day and queuing throughout the week. Is good for getting posts, but bad to get cutting edge news which requires you to post same day or within 24 hours or be old news.

Blazing Minds

My blogs just passed it's first anniversary, sometimes I find it quite hard to get some inspiration to blog, but I try not to blog a post just for the sake of it, it just doesn't work..
.-= Blazing Minds´s last blog ..Blogs Iâ€™ve found of interest today! =-.