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How Do I Keep a Flow of Posts to My Blog?
By admin | March 5, 2009
This has got to be a question many bloggers asked themselves many times in their blogging careers and it seems to hit around the 6 -12 months period. The honeymoon is over, the energy levels have dropped and posts start dwindling. I am as guilty of it as anyone else.
So what do you do? Give up? Yes sometime lack of motivation and inspiration can be a problem but it can be overcome. Everyone suffers from it. I am sure I am not alone in this and you have to equally sure. Blogs take time and energy and sometimes it can be difficult to sustain. I gave some tips about blogging block in a previous post and I am going to expand on those.
So sit down and work out how you are going to generate posts for the coming weeks.
Why not look at your previous posts. You may find that you have covered a lot of topics in your niche but every post you do ,can be expanded upon, rewritten or improved in some way. Try a different voice.If the post was a series of tips, then have a look at those tips and see if you can expand on one or two and make another post. For example I have talked about mindmapping in the past as a way of getting over writers block.It was something touched upon in a post but could easily form a separate post or number of posts.
Do you have some longer posts that with revision and expansion stand as another couple of posts?
Quite often going back over old posts gives the impetus need to restart. Things that you didn’t mention then or that have changed over time (the internet changes with frightening speed sometimes) might be the subject of another post. I call this mind tickling. You read something and it starts a scratch somewhere in your mind. Work on that thought and you might have the start of another series of posts.
Above all you should never give up. If you have managed to sustain a blog for months, it would be a shame to let that go.
Til next time
jane
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