Suffering from Blogger’s Block?
June 26th, 2007 by Cristina Favreau
Here are 10 tips to beat blogger’s block:
- Lower your standards
- Start with a headline
- End with a deadline
- Eliminate distractions
- Write at dawn, not dusk
- Take a break
- Automatically spawn ideas with HitTail
- Get a little help from your friends
- Capture ideas before you lose them
- Breathe
I’ve just recently signed up for HitTail, which is a pretty neat (and free!) application. So I’ll try using it to see if it generates more blog ideas.
I have to disagree with #5. I’m completely useless in the morning. I write my best stuff at night, but then again, my uninterrupted work hours are from 8pm to 1am!!!
What helps you beat blogger‘s block?
[...] I don’t think that is what holds me back. Sometimes it’s a time issue, but more often, I just can’t think of anything to write that would be of interest to anyone other than myself. So I found it very interesting that while reading some of my other favourite blogs today, I discovered that Kathie Thomas recently posted an entry called Do You Have Trouble Blogging? and Cristina Favreau posted one called Suffering from Blogger’s Block? Obviously I am not alone in this! Between them I now have several resources for future ideas, and I’m looking forward to trying them out. [...]