4 Tips on Writing Great Articles When You’re NOT in the Mood!

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We’ve all experienced this. After blogging for a period of time, your mind goes blank.You’ve written on every (seemingly) possible thing related to your niche, and now you’ve got nothing to write about! This is very dangerous, for if you don’t write about something, your readers won’t have anything new to read! Then they’ll go someplace else. Not likey!!

So you’re stuck now. Where do you get new ideas to write about? How? Time is running out fast and the adrenaline is building up…. heh just kidding. Here are four quick and dirty tips you can use to defeat your blogger’s block:

Explain Jargon Terms

There simply must be terms in your niche which confuse and flabbergast readers. In the blogging world, terms like ‘trackbacks’ and ‘nofollow’ are such examples. These terms provide the perfect opportunity for a post. Learn about them(if you don’t already know about them) and write up your own tutorial on these terms in simple, comprehensible language. This is important. Your tutorials must be easy to understand and devoid of more jargon terms. If you look around the web for tutorials on such terms, you will find that most of them explain it in a way no lay man can understand. They’re so full of even more jargon and complicated language that no one except the really hard-core people can understand them. So, go the extra mile and do this for your readers. You’ll be appreciated for that.

You’ll find a lot of jargon terms to explain and write about. And they are really a good post idea if you’re feeling down and don’t want to think up stuff for a post. All you gotta do is read around the web and gather information from different sources and then arrange all that mess into a readable, understandable form! For example, here are my jargon-explaining posts on trackbacks and nofollow.

Link Real Life With Your Niche

This tip is more for ‘blogging-about-blogging’ blogs (like this one). But it can be manipulated to work for any niche.

The thing is that you can link real life stuff with your niche. For example, you could write about how blogging is very similar to humans(birth, childhood, growth, etc). I once wrote a guest post on Carl’s blog about how the game of cricket and blogging were very similar. The idea came to me when I was watching a cricket match, and I thought why not write a post about it? I didn’t even have to think of the idea, it came to me instead of I having to make it come to me. So, think of any real life thing that can be compared to your niche and write up a post on it!

Write Tutorial/How To Articles

This is somewhat similar to the first point, but deserves it’s own mention. Tutorial articles are what’s called evergreen articles. They never wilt or die out. Readers are always on the look out for help on something. And this is the perfect opportunity for you! For example, if you run a blog about gardening, you must know quite a bit about gardening right? Why not write up an article on how to operate a lawn mover or plant seeds? It’ll be easy for you since you already know quite a bit about it and you only have to put your knowledge in words. But people who are searching for how to operate lawn movers or how to

plant seeds will find your tutorial of great help. They’ll even send it to their friends and therefore your tutorial will spread around. The best part is, as long as people keep searching for help on planting seeds or using lawn movers, your tutorial will be in demand, and this can continue for years and years!

Post Related News Items

This one is for the real lazy chump. Found interesting news related to your blog? Why not blog about that? This is very simple. Just search around the internet for news items related to your blog and then write up a post about them. Bam! There’s a day’s post for you! For example, when AdSense recently introduced changes to their referral program, and since the news was still fresh-from-the-oven, I jumped on the opportunity and wrote up a post on it. I was among the first bloggers to do so (:cool:). And when AdSense introduced even more changes, I was among the first to blog about that too.

Why did I do that? Firstly, it was as related as members of a family to my blog. Why wouldn’t my blog readers be interested in money making programs? Also, it was a huge opportunity for a quick post, so I jumped at it.

What can you learn from my story? When ever you see a news item related to your blog, and you’re not in the mood of writing a post, just take that news and put it on your blog. And since news items are topical, and topical items are hot with internet surfers, your post is likely to go hot.

So there you have it. Use these tips to write good posts when you’re not in the mood!

Now your views: What tips would/do you give or use to get quick ideas?

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