How To Write A New Blog Post Every Day

7 days. 7 posts.

Wow, it’s been a full week now at the new RalfSkirr.com. And, look­ing at my blog posts, it’s been a mor­bid week. 

How do you go from post­ing 7 posts a year to 7 posts a week?

It starts with a res­o­lu­tion. I won’t call it a day on any day be­fore the daily post is published. 

Next you have to come up with a topic. That’s where for many as­pir­ing writ­ers panic sets in. The prover­bial ‘writer’s block.’

There’s no such thing as writer’s block. It’s com­pletely made up.

Peo­ple don’t have writer’s block, they just don’t have an idea how to get started. They’re un­der the false im­pres­sion a writer starts with a blank page and pulls some­thing out of … nothing.

If you do it that way, of course you’ll be out of ideas quickly. No pro­duc­tive per­son cre­ates con­tent on a daily ba­sis based on blank pages and a big fat …  nothing.

What you need is a start­ing point. Here are the start­ing points that I’ve used dur­ing my first week of con­sis­tent blogging.

1. I keep a note­book. Every day I spend a few min­utes adding new ideas to the note­book. When it comes to ac­tu­ally sit­ting down and writ­ing my daily post, I sim­ply open my note­book and pick one of the ideas. That’s bet­ter than a blank screen, is­n’t it?

It’s a pen and pa­per note­book. See im­age be­low. Dig­i­tal notes never worked for me. I tried them all: Word, Scrivener, Ex­cel, OneNote, etc. etc.

2. I move as­pects from my cur­rent blog posts into my note­book for a fu­ture blog post. Let me explain.

When writ­ing a sen­tence like ‘SEO is dead’ my mind im­me­di­ately pops up 50 shades of why this is­n’t en­tirely true. Why it needs to be ex­plained in a spe­cific con­text. Why this needs to be dis­cussed in more de­tail. Yada, yada, yada.

If put all that stuff into the post, it’ll end up hav­ing 2000 words, and the mes­sage will get drowned in complexity.

So I re­strict my post to the main point and move the ig­nored as­pects to my note­book for fu­ture posts.

3. I use im­ages to get my imag­i­na­tion started. Al­most every day I visit Bigstockphoto.com. Not only to find im­ages for my blog posts and busi­ness pre­sen­ta­tions, but also to find ideas. I’m a very lin­ear and left-brained per­son, so this is a very un­usual ap­proach for me.

4. I re­act to thing I find on the in­ter­net. The death of so­cial me­dia was a re­ac­tion to a friend’s Face­book post, where she stated how over­whelmed with so­cial me­dia she was. You can also find in­spi­ra­tion in other peo­ple’s blog posts, or on Google news.

Those are just 4 start­ing points, but surely enough to get you through one week of blogging.

The main point be­ing the note­book to col­lect ideas.

My work­space :-) and my note­book show­ing the pages for the 2 posts death of seo and death of so­cial me­dia. The one say­ing OK was pub­lished, the other still un­pub­lished when I took the photo.