Staying Focused On Your Blog
April 10, 2008
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Sometimes when you get out of the groove of posting daily, it can be harder than you imagined to get it back. That’s definitely what I’m finding out as I’ve been struggling to get topics to post about, not only here on BloggingNotes, but my other sites as well.
And I’m sorry to say, that my niche site has not being doing very well at all, not generating much in the way of traffic, and definitely no income. In fact, I put out a call yesterday for other local bloggers who might be willing to take on a partnership in writing the thing, with an equal split of all income from the site.
There have been no takers.
One of my blogs has essentially shut down until next fall, when the hockey season starts up again (at least for the Vancouver Canucks), so there’s not really any pressure to do much posting there.
I’ve launched another site (http://windowsnotes.com) and am looking forward to contributing to that. In fact, that was a last minute toss up between being a blog and a ‘traditional’ web site. The blog won.
If you’re starting to feel that you’re running out of ideas for a blog, rather than abandoning it, write some posts for it that’ll never see the light of day. Stuff that’ll never get published, but keeps you focused on the site, and looking for new topics that you would be willing to post. That’s what I wish I’d done for Blogging Notes.
I know that I said I’d be posting more regularly, and for those of you who’ve stayed subscribed to the feed, and commented in the last little while, I appreciate it more than I can tell you. I am working on posts, and will have them go live in the next day or so.
I can feel it coming back.
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April 10th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
I’ll be witing for you blog notes.. Just take your time man!
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There have been more then a few good posts written lately concerning “bloggers block”, if you have time look around; it really can help.
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April 12th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Yeah, I lost my daily groove because of the worpress 2.5 fiasco ironically (come read the post-if you dare!) and it’s been hard to get back into my regular posting.
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April 16th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
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To put it bluntly, writers block sucks. Especially if you work on a few blogs and all of that great content that seemed to flow out of you for months on end just *leaves*. Feels like it won’t ever come back, sometimes.
This is why I’ve always reco…
April 18th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Think of something that doesn’t have anything to do with your topic really and then find a way to make it relevant. Sounds silly but it works very well for me a lot of the time I feel I have written everything I can think to say.
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May 13th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Ye, that can be a problem.
What I do when I have that problem is to go to a forum in my niche and read the posts for inspiration.
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May 13th, 2008 at 6:40 am
Craig - an excellent idea, and something that I’m going to have to take a look at. Thanks for the suggestion and the comment.