Comments on: The Writer’s Block Guide To Producing Compelling Content

By: .neteffect | BlogWell

.neteffect | BlogWell — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:07:57 +0000

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By: Jason Falls

Jason Falls — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:14:01 +0000

Paul – Steal away!

Sujoy – Thanks man. You sure are prolific. Keep up the good work.

Mark – Great point and one a lot of bloggers can and should take heed to. I’ve alluded to that somewhere before, but thank you for sharing it and for stopping by!

By: Mark Baratelli

Mark Baratelli — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:45:46 +0000

I enjoyed reading your post. Here’s what I do on my blog(s) that helps me avoid the “what to write” problem. Just offering it up as yet another idea.

I never force myself to post. I just avoid that mentality. What’s the point of having a new post every hour/day/week if you sit down to write it and go “Oh man, what do I write about?”

There is a ton of stuff to write about. You just have to go live and allow the stuff to come to you.

I only post when I have something I really want to share: I see signage that’s odd and take a photo, I have a conversation that generates ideas, I read an article that gets me excited about a topic…

That way, I void that pressure to write. There is no pressure. I only write when I am inspired. And when I limit myself to only writing posts when I am inspired, my posts are (a) better and (b) easier to write.

By: Techkeyla » Links for 2008-04-27

Techkeyla » Links for 2008-04-27 — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:11:02 +0000

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By: Sujoy

Sujoy — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:01:36 +0000

Fortunately for me, I have too many topics to write on in a typical day, and just not able to squeeze out a slice of time to write as many posts.
But definitely this post shall definitely come of help when ‘it’ finally strikes me.Great post!!

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:46:07 +0000

nice post. i might steal the bit about gibson + guitar lessons if that’s ok? great example.

By: Mari

Mari — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:34:44 +0000

Thanks Jason. I need to use Twitter more – that’s apparent. Now to get my life reorganized…

By: Jason Falls

Jason Falls — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:58:42 +0000

Mack – Agreed. I not only get ideas from Twitter, but use my community there for input and focus group-like research on my posts. It’s the one place online to keep a finger on the pulse of a lot of information.

David — Thank you for consistently good posts!

By: David Culpepper

David Culpepper — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:04:54 +0000

Hi Jason,

Thanks for including us in your links!

By: mack collier

mack collier — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:34:09 +0000

Best way I get past writer’s block is to read other blogs and get on Twitter. Doing this gives me ideas for posts via items in my feed reader, as well as discussions on Twitter.

And after going to SXSW, Blogger Social, and now Small Business Marketing Unleashed, I have seen that attending conferences is a GREAT way to get fodder for posts. One the way home from SBMU this week, I scribbled down 7 ideas for posts spread over three blogs, all from conversations I had during SBMU.