Getting blogging: tips to get your blog writing started

Have you found it hard to get back on to the blogging bandwagon?  Perhaps you haven’t started yet and it’s proving tough to get going.

If you have taken a break from your writing or you are starting from scratch, you may have found it hard to get going.  Your first blog post can feel daunting and, to be honest, a little intimidating.  What will your first message be to the world?  And who will be reading it?

You may have noticed that I have left my typepad blog behind.  After 3 years of blogging on Typepad [which I have to say is a great blogging platform and one that I would highly recommend - I just want every thing under one roof now which is why I have moved everything over to wordpress], my blog has been empty of postings for many weeks whilst I get going on my new one, here.

But I have to admit it’s been hard to get going again.  There is nothing worse than a blank sheet of paper or screen to dull your creativity!

So I thought I would share a few tips on how I have got going and hope they may be useful to you if you find yourself in this dilemma.

1.  Print off a calendar for the month and give each day a topic. For example, if you are a nutritionist you may want to have Monday as your detox day, Tuesday as your veggie focus, Wednesday as your portion control day and so on.  Giving each day a focus makes it easier to come up with article titles.

2.  Come up with article titles.  Once you have your daily topics, write down an article title in each of the days in your calendar.  You don’t have to write the article – just write down the title of the post

3. Set aside a couple of hours of writing and schedule the week ahead.  Once you start writing, keep going.  Make full use of the scheduling function in your blog and time your posts to come out over the coming days.

Once you get going, the writing becomes easier and easier.  That first one is always the hardest so start taping away on your keyboard now and watch the words flow out

Have you got any writing tips you can share?  Leave a comment as I know others would love to read your thoughts.

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