Hold a Conversation with Your Inner Child

Where would you like your blog to go? What were your disappointments in blogging? If you had a magic button, what would you add to your blog? If you could change your blog in a way that is not now possible, what would that change be.

In your heart of hearts, what do you really want to do with your blog? Unleashing your creative juices can be easy if you listen to that little voice in your head and write about what you really find interesting.

It may be that you should start another blog to replace your present one. Or you may want to start a second blog to complement your original blog.

For most of us, we don't want to change anything drastically. We just want to be able to write free and easy like we used to. So what is stopping us? Why has it become hard? Why don't the words flow anymore?

You need enthusiasm, and you can get that from your inner child. Listen to him (or her). What do you really want to write about?

If you were starting a new blog today, and it was on the subject of your present blog, what would you write about?

If you can't answer that question, try this one: Why did you start your original blog? Answer honestly. You may find that you have strayed from your original course. Your enthusiasm is waiting for you somewhere between your first post and today. Backtrack. Find it. Make friends with it.

And get blogging.

Comment on Another Blog

They say that it is a poor teacher who does not learn from his students. Everybody has something to add to the base of knowledge of humanity. The trick is simply to draw out that information.

Go to a competing blog. Find a post that interests you. Read it and all comments. Find something to add. Write your comment.

Now, go back to your blog and write about the whole experience. Tell your readers why you thought the original post was good or bad. Tell them why your comment was so wonderful. Tell them what else you would add or remove to the original post.

It should be pretty easy.