PB084: How to Come Up With Fresh Ideas to Write About On Your Blog

Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes. How to Beat Writer's Block: Part 2 - How to Come Up With Fresh Ideas to Write About Today's episode is about how to beat writer's block. It's the second in a mini-series of podcasts that looks at how to prevent writer's block holding you back from making your blog a success. Writer's block is very common. I get asked about all the time and suffer it too! In today's episode, I share tips about how you can come up with fresh ideas to write about and keep your blog exciting and useful for your readers.  In This Episode You can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). In today's episode: How to identify the ‘change’ you are trying to bring to readers Why identifying problems you can solve for your readers will give you fresh blog ideas 8 ways to identify problems you can write about to help your readers 4 ways to make solving reader problems and getting fresh ideas easier in future Further Reading and Resources for How to Beat Writer's Block: Part 2 - How to Come Up With Fresh Ideas to Write About Podcast Episode 83: How to Beat Writer’s Block: Part 1 – Working Out Why You’re Stuck Podcast Episode 11: How to Come Up with Hundreds of Blog Post Ideas for Your Blog Discover Hundreds of Post Ideas for Your Blog with Mind Mapping A Powerful Exercise inside Google Analytics to Set You Up for a Successful Year of Blogging Daily Exercise - Update an Old Post  A tool for mind mapping ideas - Mind Node Podcast Episode 81: 14 Types of Stories You Can Tell On Your Blog Podcast Episode 80: What to Write When You Feel Like You’ve Got Nothing Left to Say Battling Bloggers Block 11 Tips to Breaking Bloggers Block Through Solving Reader Problems 10 Ideas for Finding Blogging Inspiration Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hi, there. Welcome to episode 84 of the ProBlogger Podcast. My name's Darren Rowse and today, we're continuing our mini-series on tackling blogger's block.  In the last episode, episode 83, we talked about three different types of blogger's block. Those were coming up with ideas for your blog post, writing the blog post themselves, then completing your blog post. Three areas where I know bloggers do get stuck. Today, I want to tackle coming up with ideas to write about for your blog. You can find today's show notes with some further reading at problogger.com/podcast/84. This whole series is really about getting unstuck, battling that blogger's block that so many of us face. This particular area of coming up with ideas to write about is probably the most common area that I find bloggers are struggling with. After it happened about a year into your blog when you've been through many of those initial ideas that you had when you started out, you generally have a whole heap of ideas. Sometimes, too many ideas. Then, you run out. You feel like sometimes, you've written everything there is to say, you've written everything that you know to talk about, and everyone else has already written everything and you come out against, "What could I write that's fresh? What could I write that's going to have any impact upon my readers? What could I write that's going to stand out from everyone else?" This is something that many of us struggle with. It's actually one of the reasons a number of bloggers that I've come across over the last year or two have given up blogging. It’s actually like they have nothing left to say. I would really encourage you to push past this particular type of blogger's block. All of us do have all kinds of things to say. There are always new ways of saying things that perhaps we've said before as well, and that's a mind shift that you need to push thro...