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The other day I was talking about how to craft great opening lines. We are today going to talk about something similar, headlines. The most important factor when it comes to get your article read, and I’m telling the truth it is deadly important.
TASK: I want you to every single time there is an example, for you to make another example. In that way you will get lots of practice out of this post, it is so important to practice.
Headlines for Starters
You can’t just read a series of articles and books and expect you are a good copywriter. It takes lots of practise to write good headlines. When you are starting out you should look what other people did. Though, you have to study headlines that works, that is a good way to start writing great headlines.
You can look books, browse Amazon, popular articles – in that way you can get lots of inspiration on how you can write a good headline.
When you are writing headlines you should try to implement keywords. Go for the small ones, instead of the big ones. If you are writing a post ‘How to Make Money Online’ – then you should go for smaller keywords than ‘Make Money Online.’ Keep it small but still recognizable, so they know what the article is about. You will with that method be much more likely to get traffic from Google.
You shouldn’t reveal too much in your headlines. You should go for a headline like this ‘How to Get On Top of Google, Quickly’ instead of a headline like this ‘Do SEO and Get on Top of Google’ – the first one is not revealing how, but only what. Which is important.
How to Craft a Good Headline
When it comes to crafting headlines it is also important that you get to the point. No jokes, no wordplay. The direct headlines works better.
- Example: ‘FREE subscription to Blog Master Club’
When you are writing headlines you should sure to mention the benefits. People want to learn something from posts (or whatsoever)
- Example: ‘Read This Book and You Will Instantly Make $1000 Each Month’
You see, this headline ^ is not revealing anything about how to, it tell you exactly what to do and it mentions a benefit.
People love news, it doesn’t have to be a fresh new, the reader just don’t have to know it.
- Example: ‘Now Introducing, the newest Twitter app, tweet simply by speaking!’
This type of headline ↓ allows you to be direct, provide a benefit and take a commanding posture. It isn’t conversational(the opening line should be conversational), it is dictatorial, but it in a good way. Again this is very clear, the reader know what it is about.
- Another Example: ‘Become a Famous Blogger in 60 Days’
Start the Headline With a Question
When you are creating a question-headline, people shouldn’t be able to just say “no.”
- Example: ‘Are Your Readers Ignoring You?’
The answer for most people would be no, because they haven’t been told so. That’s why the headline should go like this instead:
- Example: “Are Your Readers Secretly Ignoring You?’
Why?
Instead of asking a simple question you should ask ‘Why?’ – That is another way to focus on the benefit when reading your article. You can replace “Why” with the following:
- Here’s Why
- What
- When
- How
- Example: “Why Some People Almost Always Gets 1000 Retweets”
In this particular example we are using the words ‘some’ and ‘almost’ which modifies ‘always’ to make it more plausible.
Why Provocative Questions Works
Provocative questions is questions that involves a reader directly. The question has to relate directly and state the benefit clearly. It should make the reader say “Yes” or at least “I want to know more”
- Example: “Do You Make These Mistakes When You Are Writing Essays?”
Here’s Why ‘How to’ Headlines Should Be Crafted
A ‘How-to’ article is an article that should make things better and/or easier. You should state a need, again by using benefits.
A how-to headline immediately shows the benefit because it begins with ‘how to’ or simply ‘how.’
- Example: “How to Quit Cigarettes In 30 Days”
- 2nd Example: “How to Safe Time and Make More Money”
These headlines is so great, mostly because they gives us a huge benefit. Benefits is probably the most important stuff when it comes to crafting headlines.
How to [Task] That [Benefit]
When you are creating these headlines it is so important that you state a benefit, state the biggest benefit in the post. When you should find the biggest benefit, it is probably all about being to specific as possible.
- Example: “How to Get a Dog and Be More Energic”
You can also try to leave the to, it doesn’t play that big role.
How to Craft Great List Post Headlines
The content in the list posts is crucial and the most important thing when it comes to get shared on social medias, but the headlines definitely helps. Any headline that lists a number of reasons, secrets, types or ways will work because it makes a specific promise.
These types of headlines is also very good for showing your expertise in a particular field.
- Example: “10 Secrets to Making $1000”
- Example: “How to Be Direct – These 3 Delicious Ways”
- Example: “Are You Using Social Media for Your Business? Here’s 3 Reasons Why You Should”
This was a lot, take notes. You will not be able to craft perfect headlines after reading this post, you need to practise and just start writing headlines. As the time goes you will see what works and what doesn’t work that well.
Why Blogging With a Passion is Key to Successful Blogging
Passion is needed when you are blogging, definitely.
If you are blogging with no passion I don’t think you will be able to write anything good, because if you blog with passion you will be so much more likely to produce good content because you like what you write about and you know something about it.
And if you are passionate about your topic, you would have no problem researching about your topic, because you are probably already doing that.
If you are passionate then you will also be more willing to blog for longer time with no money. You like what you write about thus will you love to write about it, share you knowledge with others.
Lots of people starts blogs and are hoping to earn lots of money in no time and they really doesn’t care whether they like what they write about. I think that is a totally irrational way to start a blog. If you are passionate about this topic you will have much better odds to succeed.
You should not start a blog because you want to make money, it could be one of your main goals, but not the main purpose of why you blog. If you have chosen to start a blog you should be passionate about the topic.
What is Passion?
Almost everyone knows what passion is, but I think that you need to think what really describes passion. If you can describe passion you will also be able to find your passion, if you have a passion.
The World’s Coolest Red Hair’s definition on passion: “a burning desire to succeed in what you love”
This definitely a good definition, in which I totally agree with. If that is your definition of passion, then you will know what your passion is, if you have one. I discussed this with some friends the other day.
And all those who are just blogging and don’t blog on a topic, but actually wanted to blog on a topic, don’t know their true passion. So they start blogging about blogging. They develop this passion to blogging.
It makes sense you can’t just start a blog and then blog about nothing. Then start to blog about blogging because they know how to set up a blog and that’s it. I really don’t think that is the way to find your true passion.
What You Can Use Passion For?
Passion is great for delivering blog posts every single day. Like every blogger should aim for. I think that you would be much more able to succeed with one blog where you really are focused instead of having ten different posts.
Do you see the difficulties on having 10 different blog posts in one single day? It wouldn’t be realistic. You could have 2-3 different blogs, but you should have at most 1 main blog, which you would focus 100% on whenever you need it.
If you really are passionate about your topic then you will be able to keep up with your writing and then your blog will last much longer than if you are not passionate about what you write about. It could make you money but not as much as if you were passionate.
If you don’t blog with passion, then you will not be able to keep up with the writing.
How to Keep Your Blog Posts Alive For Longer Than A Day
I think lots of people want to make their blog posts be more popular over a longer time frame. They keep getting this feeling that they have to write every day, which they aren’t supposed to. Of course every day is good, if you can keep up with it, but if you can’t, then it isn’t cool. I think it is an extremely important thing to do. If you can make your posts more popular over a longer time frame, then you would be able to:
- Get more comments
- Get more page views
- Get a lower bounce rate
So this is definitely benefits that would help your blog grow, bigger community and so on. Can you see the benefit from having a post which is popular for a bigger time span. These aren’t the only benefits, not at all, though you can imagine what the benefits are.
Keep The Posts in Circulation
Some people doesn’t like this method, but I think it is great for three reasons.
It helps when you have a writer’s block, you will get some content and then be able to relax.
It will increase your Google Page Rank for that specific page (gets linked to, more etc.) Will gain more comments, overtime.
What Exactly Is Circulation?
It’s quite simple, it is when you have published a blog post, let’s say 5 months from now. It was a good post, which could get rewritten and get some new points.
I think that you should rewrite the whole post, instead of just editing it, if you do so this post would be much more unique and people who have followed your blog for over 5 months, would be able to recognize the post if it is the same post.
So you need to rewrite it, this wouldn’t help if you have the writer’s block, where you mind keep stopping you from writing, but if it is the kind of writer’s block where you can’t find a topic, this would be an ideal way to break the ice – or at least try to do so.
Edit the Posts
Edit your headlines, will work. Headlines is the key to a blog post, if the headlines is good, you shouldn’t fail, to get people to click on the link, from the front page to the posts page. I think this is important, if you make sure that you have a powerful headline. It matters!
Edit your opening lines, is the second thing that the reader gets to see, this really is where you need to impress the reader and make him/her read the whole post. It is like in a newspaper, I don’t know what you would call it, it is like a sub-header, it is what gets the person interested in your article.
Edit Your Formatting, is good. If you restructure a post just before publishing it. Make it scannable, readable. Just make it simpler in the formatting.
Writing New Fresh Content Which Gets Popular
Didn’t like the “circulation method?” On that occasion I have some other ways to write some posts that will be alive for more than one day.
Keep it simple, when you write something that is going to be popular for more than one single day, thereupon you have to make it simple. If it is simple then every single body and brain will understand it in this world. If they understands what you say, then of course.
Try to tell a story, this will only be a success if you are good at finding the relevancy of a story (if you are not, you should use this “method.”) But this will simply add some relation to the article and make it more personal, it just have to have a certain level of relevance.
Link to older posts, might help your older posts to get a bit more views. You should do that with a good anchor text and maintain the relevancy the link. You can easily do this and if you do it the right way people will click on it.
Short about how you can improve your blog post’s live, did this have an impact on your blog? I would love to know.
Everybody Isn’t Perfect and That Affects Your Blog
We are all not perfect as well, nothing is perfect…
Definition of perfect: Perfect is a non-existing thing that people try to find or live up to. No one can be perfect because everyone has faults of some sort. If anything ever was perfect that should be (for the believers) the person who maybe died on a cross 2000 years ago.
This in other words means that you are allowed not to be perfect. No one expects you to be perfect.
I know that I suck at stuff. Other people are really bad at some other stuff, we all have our strengths and our weaknesses. I should be the first to admit that my English grammar isn’t the best, especially my punctuation. I am aware of that, I know there is something I can work with.
Do you have that as well? Now that we know everyone isn’t perfect, then what aren’t you perfect at? There probably
is something blogging related. Share with us, if you share it with us – then you’ve already done the first thing.
Which is to be aware of your imperfectness. Though sometimes you can’t do a single thing about your imperfectness, but when you can, just try to improve. Of course you do not need to try to be perfect, because that is unreachable. You can always try to improve your imperfectness, but you can never be perfect.
Not Good at Writing?
This reminds me of an email I got a couple days ago. It was a sales email, I read it anyway. It said something like this “I’m not much of a writer, so I’m now using this automated blogging system.” I was just thinking, do you really wanna give that sh*t to your readers?
If you can’t write good, then just write your best. Do never do anything automated. It really is a stupid thing to do. The content have probably been published before you published it and it probably isn’t better than your own content.
If you are having trouble writing good content, then sit down and edit and add something here and there, make it more appealing and add more meat. You just need to practice then, take your time. Edit it a few times, till you have a stunning article.
Therefore be more satisfied and if you keep editing on every single post, then you will also be better to write the articles, without having to edit them. So that’s just practice.
What to Do About it?
You need to analyze what the problem is. What you can improve on, and we are talking about the imperfection of your blog writing, especially. You can also use this to see what you can improve on in other topics. But I have written this post so you will be able to improve your blog.
You should be able to see your own imperfection, if not then ask another person. But please, tell me that you know, there’s something you can work on? Something you can improve on. When you have analyzed the problem, then you can easily see how you can improve.
Practice, practice and practice.
You just need to admit that you can improve. If it is a big thing then you should try to improve as soon as possible, but if it isn’t a big problem then why not screw it? Is it worth it to use 5 hours to improve something that really isn’t so urgent?
What can you improve on?
How to Construct Interviews That Rocks
This is a follow-up post to the previous post I wrote the “12 Types of Blog Posts”-post. In this post I am going to explain how to make a good interview, which will be shared and commented a lot.
An interview is not just an interview, with another person. When you are publishing interview on your blog you should do a lot of work before shooting the interview with the person. You should try to get as many opinion from the person you’re interviewing, because everybody want to know about their opinions.
Preparation For The Interview
As when you are shooting a video you need to be prepared. You can’t just get some questions right away. And you shouldn’t only prepare questions, there is much more you should prepare.
Research the Person
Changes are that you know the person you’re going to invite, but even if you do then you should do some research. Just what he does and what he likes etc, if he/she has a blog then it should be no problem.
Just be sure that you know who this person is in general, if you normally are using explicit language on your blog, but this person isn’t then I think you should cut of all the explicit of the interview. The person may feel bad about using explicit words in your interview and may find it hard to tolerate stuff like that. So just cut that off.
Just be prepared, who is this person and why do you want to interview him?
Prepare a Couple of Questions
Questions, questions, questions. That is what an interview is all about. You need to have some question prepared, it can take lots of time if not are familiar with interviews, but it is pretty easy, when you have done the research of the person.
Try to ask the person some questions that you would like to know about him, try to ask new things instead of things he already have been asked before. Then the person will also be more likely to link to it, if it is new, you know? If all this stuff is new instead of the old stuff. You are asking him new things, while everybody else is asking a cook blogger how he cook, or something like that.
So ask new questions, instead of the same “routine questions.”
When you have your list of questions, ask the person you want to interview if they would like them, so they can prepare for the interview as well.
Types of Questions
Changes are that your audience would not know the person you are interviewing, so I think that it is really necessary, that you ask for a short introduction, just shoot the question “Can you tell a bit about yourself?” – that would work. If it is a blogger then the person would tell them where they can find their blog.
As I said before then you need to stand out from the crowd with your interview. Ask new and inspiring questions, instead of the same old boring stuff, if you are interviewing a problogger then you should ask over 95% blogging questions, it is okay to have some off-topic questions.
Also try to be funny, prepare some funny questions, the funniest questions is almost always the off-topic questions.
So try to shoot a couple of off-topic questions, because they are probably the funniest questions you can ask and it can give some opinions and reveal stuff about their private life.
Types of Interview
There is three types of interviews. Maybe more, but these are those I know about.
- Text Interviews
- Voice Interviews
- Video Interviews
The first one “text interviews” is just an interview, where you send the questions to the person and then he/she is emailing the answers back to you. Probably the easiest way to make an interview
The second, “voice interviews” could be you calling the person on Skype and then recording from there.
The third will be the same, but just Skype with webcam.
The second and the third would give you much more credibility, then you actually have talked to for an example Tony Robbins or a person like that.
I hope this blog post inspired you to start interviewing some people. So what is your take? Any way you want to share, how do you construct your interviews? Please let us know in the comments, much appreciated!
12 Types of Blog Posts
I hope I can give you some new insights in blogging, new ways to write is good, it challenge you as a writer, but your readers will also like the variation. So just try to write some new blog posts, than the same old blog posts all the time.
1. Instructional posts
In this kind of post you are telling the reader how to do something. These kind of articles are often quite big on Digg, they are also called “How-to”-articles.
2. Informational posts
This kind of post is a post which is telling the reader a method or a general thing, almost always a problem which they are making clear of, but not giving a concrete solution.
3. Reviews posts
You probably know this kind of post. All those affiliate products which are being sold by reviews. It is a post where you’re reviewing a product. Normally the article includes an affiliate link.
4. Lists posts
These posts are really popular, list posts are my all time favorite posts type. The article is often shared by many people and they are relatively easy to write.
5. Interviews posts
Something I should do more often. I love writing the questions and afterwards ask people the questions, they are also shared by many people, because people like the interaction between two people. Interviews also gives your readers another opinion than your opinion all the time.
If you write a blog about politics and you are totally liberalist, then interview a socialist – you would also be able to start a heavy debate, doing that.
6. Case studies posts
I just started doing case studies on DaneBlogger, the first case study will be published soon.
A case study is an example. You can walk your readers through a problem on another site (the type of case study I’m doing) or if you just watched a person who treated a dog very bad, then tell how you should react if the dog was misbehaving in this way.
So you tell about a problem and then come up with solutions, or just how you can improve a particular thing.
7. Profiles posts
Instead of focusing on a dog, you could focus on a person, a brand instead. So the same as case studies just about a person.
8. Links posts
This is an easy way to write a blog post. If you read a blog post and you feel inspired then you should write a blog post and tell your point of view, but only if you feel inspired. Don’t just fire off some bad stuff. Only share good blog posts.
Share the posts you could be writing on your own blog.
9. Comparison posts
This is a very funny way, to do write a blog post. You can make a list. Pro vs. cons.
The blog post here, could compare two or more products – and then make pro vs. cons on every product. Then write a conclusion on which product you would choose.
10. Rants posts
Rant posts are funny to write, even more funny to read. It is just where say what’s on your mind, and just like it is. You shouldn’t hide anything.
11. Research posts
Research posts can take time and you need to consider the sources you take from. Try to include some statistics in the blog posts. They are fun to read.
12. Prediction posts
I think almost everybody who reads DaneBlogger have done a post like this. The title could be “What Will Happen in 2010?” or “What Would Happened in 2009?” something like that.
I hope this inspired you to write some new stuff on your blog. It really is important that you vary your post types, your readers would like it too. Unless they are totally conservative.
Does Article Marketing Work? I Just Increased My Income by 66.69% With Three Articles
Guest post by Britt Malka
Often, it’s not easy to measure how much impact article marketing really has.
You’ve probably seen an increase in your traffic, but did it affect the bottom line of your bank account at the end of the month?
Last year, I decided to participate in the Hundred Articles in Hundred Days event that started January 1st, and I’m only a little behind schedule. Out of the articles I’ve written so far, three of them pointed to a specific page in the resource box.
Allow me to go more into details here, so you really will be able to see, just how powerful article marketing is.
A while ago, I purchased the Mini-Site Formula, and I decided to test it. So I followed the instructions, and build a page which I chose to put only eBay ads on.
What really intrigued me about this product was that there were no hype about it. If you could make about $3 per day, you’ve reached your goal. Then you could make a new site that made $3 per day, and after a while, you would make real good money.
A few videos points to the site, but I haven’t really been advertising for it in any way. Even so, this site made me money each month. Not a lot, but some, and for being a site, I almost never write on, I’m pretty satisfied. Last month I received 28 euro ($39), and it’s been around those numbers every month.
The site is made up as a blog, where I have written 19 short posts.
When I submitted three of my articles to Ezine Articles, I pointed to one specific blog post in three of them, and not only did I see a spike in the traffic. I could also measure an increase in the gains, I’ve made so far (the month’s not finished yet).
I went from 28,01 euro last month to 46,69 this month, and since eBay not shows you gain for the last two days, I can make much more than that, before the end of January.
That’s a huge increase of 66.69%.
Or more than $9 per article, if you like.
Would you think it’s worth your time to write articles, if you knew that each of them would bring in at least $9 already the first month?
One of the advantages with articles is that they stay online. The $9 I gained more per article was just this month’s result. I expect that to be much higher next month.
So, I’m pretty happy that I decided to join the Hundred Articles in Hundred Days challenge, because that was the motivation I needed to get started writing a serious amount of articles. After all – one article a day? How hard can that be?
You’ll see, it’s fun, especially when the money starts pouring in.
Britt Malka is from Denmark, she knows how to write, in a very good and attractive way. She is big in Denmark, really a writing-expert. So take notes, folks.
How Article Marketing Can Benefit Your Blog
Article marketing has been around for awhile, still not many people are using it properly. Article marketing is a type of advertising for businesses (in this case blogs), the articles are made available for publication, typically on a article directory.
Every single article contains a “bio text” which includes a references and blog address. Your articles has to be well written, because if they aren’t then they will not be distributed on another page. A well written article will also have the potential of increasing your credibility level.
History of Article Marketing
Some people think that article marketing, is a quite new phenomenon, it isn’t. It was used long before Internet marketing was a big thing. It is actually used offline as well. A local business could provide useful content to a newspaper free of charge and in return the newspaper have to put the business owner’s contact detail on it.
Online Article Marketing
Now Internet marketing, is quite hip (think it’s first time I am using that word 
) article marketing has moved the way to be an online resource as well as offline resource.
Online it is more powerful, (when we’re talking about blog promotion) a local newspaper commercial wouldn’t do so much for you? Would it?
Online article marketing has taken over the world. Maybe not, but it’s close.
The website where a author (blogger) can publish their article, is called an article directory. An example of a article directory could be Ezine Articles, it is big but a good page rank. The reason why an article directory can keep it up, is because they get new content every day (which Google love) and that means traffic.
Which means that people are more likely to place their ad on the article directory’s site. It is quite a win-win situation. Nowadays articles whom are submitted to article directories are keyword optimized to target a particular niche, which means there’s lots of bullshit out there.
Many marketers love this way of building backlinks, somebody really benefit from it, they have submitted over 1000 articles, which is a lot, that is also a quite big bunch of backlinks.
Web 2.0
Article marketing has been much more popular as we get new sites all the time, this also means that the quality of these articles are really low, which actually gives us no reason for using them on our own site.
So this “sudden” popularity of article marketing, really has been bad for it.
When we are talking about web 2.0 I would like to mention the pages called “HubPages” and “Squidoo” they rank really good on Google, if you write some good content and point back to your blog then you really can get some good traffic and establish a readership in that way.
To use Squidoo is really a good way of distributing your articles, as this service really rank good.
Conclusion
It is hard to stand out from the crowd when we are talking about article marketing, because of the big popularity. But when you are publishing them, please make them absolutely stunning!
You need to make them really good, to give you more than a backlink.
How to Write Extremely Good Content
I think we all can agree that content is what drives every blog, at least so I hope. So well it’s really important that your content is good. But well, we all have different views on what good content is. In this post I’m going to describe what I mean good content is and really how I think you should write it. Content is queen. Not king, queen.
Let’s get started!
What’s Good Content?
We all have different opinions, that’s what makes humanity so beautiful (okay, Mikkel, stop that poetic shit!) But well, we have different opinions on good content, as well as how we define good movies, good books etc.
So writing good content can’t be fucking hard, it really is, you can’t get everybody to like your content, that really is impossible. Like everybody doesn’t like my kind of music. The most people(everybody) from my class hates my music, but I think it’s wonderful! So it’s hard to make art, not everybody will like it and that’s how it is.
So there’s no definition of good content, we can only, sit down and decide what we think is good content and I’ve done that and therefore I can conclude what I think my audience would like – and nevertheless what I like. So if you don’t like this content, just fuck off! -just kidding. Feel free to complain, but I don’t think much will change, of course if you’re coming with some tips I maybe could include some stuff there. (Okay, already too long paragraph)
Content Which is Unique is Good, I Presume?
I love unique content. Who doesn’t? Unique content is important for your blog to stay in sight. To get out of the crowded niche, you might be in. It’s hard to do that, especially if your niche is crowded like the “health-niche” or the “mmo-niche” that’s niches that really is crowded so it is important to do something unique.
Unique content is something that hasn’t been written before. Keep in mind that it can be hard, as you might get your inspiration from elsewhere, but it shouldn’t be impossible as everybody doesn’t know everything.
So well, unique content is good and every single blog should have it own uniqueness, in it self.
A question you need to ask your self: “How is my blog different from all the other blogs in my niche?”
Entertaining, is Key
Everybody loves to be entertained. Who doesn’t? People also read blogs to be entertained, not only to get knowledge. You should write as entertaining as possible, you shouldn’t be serious all the time.
Try to entertain your audience as much as possible, just don’t get too bizarre, you know what I mean.
People get to blogs to get laughs. So if your blog could be educational but still funny, that would just be a plus.
Your Blog is Useful Isn’t it?
I think this is quite obvious your blog should be useful, if you are trying to learn people stuff it really should be useful. I think the most of you guys and girls want to educate your readers and that’s one of the reasons why you blog.
But is your blog useful?
Do some research before you try to publish anything, is it relevant or isn’t it? Do your researches well, that’s really important. When you want to build useful content, you also need to research your readership. You could ask your readers some questions if your blog is satisfying, or what they think is needed, etc.
Ask yourself why your favorite blog is attracting for readers?
Make it Easy
People tend not to stay on blogs for that long, my avg. time is 3 minutes and 28 seconds, so I try to make my posts as scannable as possible, which means that people easily can jump to what they want to read.
You can make your posts much better for the people who are in a hurry. By using:
Lists – a post that has the headline “Top Ten Ways to Build a Better Blog” or something like that.
Formatting – this is where you are using bold, underlining and italic writing, to highlight words.
Subheadings – I like to use those a lot, it’s the h3-tag I’m using to make my subheadings.
Short paragraphs – this is something you need to do to make your content easier to read, that also makes it faster to read.
Easy word - Use simple words, when you’re writing on a blog, you don’t need to impress your English teacher, nor do you need to write impressive words. You really just need to write in a simple language, so everybody can understand what you want to say.
You need to work hard and produce content that can easily be scanned.
Hope this “tutorial” helped you to write better content.
What’s your thoughts about how to write better content? Please share in comments.
How to Avoid Writer’s Block?
I thought lots of you guys may have achieved a writer’s block, while you have had your holidays. I know I once had such thing. No shame there, Joel Comm had one too and everybody needs room and time off. If we just worked every single day for 15 years, we would burn out, if you don’t then I wanna bet you aren’t a human.
You just need those breaks, which I definitely understand why.
Anyway, my #1 tip for avoiding writer’s block is “give yourself some space”
“Try drawing or painting a scene you’re working on. Often this will help free up your imagination” – Kevin Henkes
That was a quote, to be honest, that doesn’t work for me, anyway… It might work for you, I don’t know, not at all.
When you have had a writer’s block for a couple of days and just can’t get started, then you need to force yourself to write just something. Writer’s block, will probably slow your writing a lot and your imagination, which means that you wouldn’t be able to come up with topics to write about.
But of course, if you force yourself to write and just really are being productive (the guide on productivity will be found here), if you do that, then you probably will be able to get started writing just a bit. Start out maybe with some smaller posts (200-300) words per blog post and then increase each blog post till you reach its largest (which is how many words you wanna write on your blog, for each blog post.)
Another quote:
“I think writer’s block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.” by Roy Blount, Jr.
I definitely agree with the last point of Roy’s quote, that’s true. Remember use the productivity guide here, very important when you try to find the writer you really are.
“Writer’s block is definitely a topic that bore, me, well I hate it even more when I have it.” by Mikkel Juhl
A little quote about writer’s block, from me, hope you enjoy it.
“Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words.” by Valerie Sherwood
Enough quotes for today.
Well I think that, you just need to get started with writing again when you have a writer’s block. Then you will suddenly fell, like you do not “have” writer’s block anymore.
I hope you are not getting a writer’s block, anytime soon – or that you have it.
Hello, I'm Mikkel Juhl, young blogger. I started blogging in 2007, let's say that I've been around for a while. I'm 14 years old, I have a passion for 