Today I offer you an excellent guest post by Sarah Harris, Marketing Manager at Adiamor Diamond Engagement Rings. I hope you are inspired. Blogging is important for SEO, if you have a business online you need to be blogging. Your blog will personalize your business and help you get more targeted visitors. If you feel blocked writing, this should help:
The writer’s nemesis –writer’s block – applies to bloggers too! The nature of blogging is to write frequently. That many small posts and the well runs dry eventually. How do you come out of it to the other side, and start blogging again? Here are some tips.
• Try Prompts – There are many prompting websites out there. While the topics might not be what you would normally think to write about, that’s the point. It gets you around what you’re blocking, and writing something else. It gets the creative juices flowing again. Take a look at the categorized prompt generators here, or check out Plinky to get started.
• Self Inventory – If you’re suffering from ongoing block, take a self assessment. Are you getting enough sleep? Are you eating healthy? Any nagging health concerns you need to see a doctor about? Believe it or not, that can definitely slow down your ability to write on an ongoing basis.
• Inspiration Inventory – What inspires you? Is it great music? Is it your surroundings? Great artwork? Make a concerted effort to make that creative space. Bring the elements in to your workspace and make them a daily part of your life. Artwork can be hung, flowers bought, music listened to. Just the process of putting that environment together may actually get you over your block.
• Schedule… Or Not – If you’re a person who writes on a tight preconceived schedule, don’t. Stop. Write when the spirit moves you to write. If you’re someone who already takes that approach, switch it up and schedule your blogging. Define set times, and block them out in your calendar. That’s when you’re going to write your blog.
• Jots – As you’re going through your day, jot down your thoughts. Those random, fleeting things that pop in and out of your head – those are potential blog posts. Keep a notebook at hand at all times. Stop what you’re doing and write it down, because you simply won’t remember when you get home. You’ve just created your own prompt book.
• Blog Jump – Take a look around other blogs, all kinds of blogs, not just those in your own genre. What are they writing about? Can you hear their individual voice? Connect with those bloggers. It’s one way to make your enthusiasm for blogging get pumped up again.
Blogger’s block is going to happen sooner or later. Take steps when it happens, and you’ll be back to blogging in no time.
