Feb 05 2009
Stuck Writing Your Blog Post? Try this Trick
Do you find yourself struggling to write the opening paragraph of your blog post? Do you keep crossing out the sentences you write?
If you find yourself facing this problem, it’s because you’ve skipped an important stage of the content creation process.
What do sportsmen do before they participate in a game or event?
They spent some time warming up, to loosen their muscles and get into the mood for participation.
Bloggers can borrow the technique from sportsmen to loosen their mental muscles to help them kick start their blog posts.
It works.
Say you have a subject for your blog post. You also have figured out how to approach the subject. However, when you start writing it, you’re stuck. You try to restart it without much success.
Well, before you throw in the towel out of frustration, why don’t you try the warm up trick first?
Forget about your blog post first. Set aside five or ten minutes for a warm up session.
In this session you write about what you’ll be writing about in your blog post.
Take out a clean sheet of paper and write: I’m going to write about _______________________
Write on without worrying about content or language. Write without any inhibition telling yourself that this is only a warm up session.
If you find yourself worrying about what you’re writing, remind yourself that this not a real piece of writing. Tell yourself it’s something you’re doing for fun to loosen up.
You can even go to the extent of telling yourself that you’ll be throwing away the piece because it’s just a warm up piece.
Through my experience, the warm up session doesn’t usually give you throw-away material. More often than not, you’ll end up discovering your opening paragraph for your blog post.
You will also experience writing flow which you’ll be itching to transfer to your blog post.
So, when you’re stuck writing your blog post, don’t give up.
Start your warm up session immediately and start writing away about what you’ll be writing about.
Isn’t that better than giving up? At least you’ll have a chance of catching something useful.
