How To Overcome Blogging's Writer Block

Writer Block is Horror

Writer block is horror situation for us as bloggers. It is the situation in where we do not able to write even some blah…blah…blah… article for our blog content. I do not really know what exactly the cause of this writer block situation — what i know is that there are no any idea to write, even tough i try so hard to squeeze my deeply thought. And, I aware that even the most known bloggers in blogosphere face this writer block situation. The difference between great blogger and so-so blogger is how they can handle this writer block situation.

The great blogger usually can overcome the writer block perfectly, they even turn writer block situation become source of idea for great new content. The so-so blogger usually do not try to find any solution to overcome it and leave their blog until died for sure. Of course, I do not want to become only so-so blogger, that’s why i try to find how can i overcome writer block situation each time it come. And I already found some of tips that can make me overcome the writer block situation perfectly.

i share it in this article. I share how i overcome writer block situation and I hope it will give some ideas how blogger can overcome the deadly – writer block – situation. Here we go:

Read our Blog Comments

There are so many ideas that we can find in our blog comment form. As example, We can turn a simple question in our blog comment form become a useful article. If we want, we also can turn some controversial disagree comment become controversial article which surely can bring our blog a lot of traffic. There are so many potential in our comment form which will be very helpful in writer block situation. Of course, it is hard to make an article from spam like comment such as niche article, great post, etc.

Read Our Old Post

Read our old post usually can give great insight for us that lead to new great article. Believe me, I experienced it. For your info, my post about English and blogging is come after I read my very first posting. It ring a bell in my head to write that article when see how poor my English in my old article. It’s a great example about how read our old post can overcome writer block situation, isn’t it? And also we can easily create a round up article from our old post – and this is what I do when write article about how we can start a blog like a pro. Another way is that we can re-write our old post that still have context for present situation – and if we do rewrite article in right way, it may become the great article that bring more traffic.

Read Other Blogs

In my opinion, this tip is as same as before tips – the difference is that we read other blogger blogs. Yeah – by read other blog, we surely can find many ideas in it. We may have some doubt about the article in other blog and write about the doubt while link to it. This way surely can make a conversational article. We also can find unanswered question in that other blog and write an article to answer it. Indeed, there are so many possibilities in other article that can use to overcome writer block situation.

Read Local Newspaper

I, sometimes, use read local newspaper to find idea for article writing. There are many thing in local newspaper that can use as idea for our blog article. We can pick some article that have relationship with our blog and write our opinion about that article which is usually produce unique article because of the local things. We also can find latest local news that related to our blog niche and we can write an news article base on that. Of course, we should put our opinion according that news to make the article better. After all, blogging is about opinion, right? And local newspaper give something that you can opinion about – and while you do that – write your opinion in blog – it mean that writer block situation overcome successfully.

Conclusion

Writer block surely is a horror situation for each blogger in blogosphere. We, as blogger, surely want to avoid writer block situation forever if possible – but it seems impossible. Even the most known blogger in blogosphere, face this writer block situations at least once. The difference of great bloggers and so-so bloggers is lay on how they face writer block situations. And here i share my way to overcome writer block situation so we all can be great blogger together. I hope this article helpful for you to overcome the writer block situation.




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