Blogging with Discipline

Blog­ging with dis­ci­pline doesn’t mean you have to blog every day or that you can’t ever take a break. It means blog­ging reg­u­larly–what­ever that means for you. It means sit­ting down and try­ing to develop a blog post idea instead of wait­ing until a perfectly-written post is already float­ing around in your brain.

Blog­ging with dis­ci­pline isn’t the only “right” way to blog. Some blog­gers find that a less-structured sched­ule works well for them. But if the con­cept appeals to you, I invite you to join me. Blog with discipline…and be avail­able for the inspi­ra­tion, when it comes.

This is me! I like the struc­ture of writ­ing reg­u­lar posts. I find daily and even weekly posts are bet­ter than try­ing to post once in awhile or a few times a week or any­thing else that leaves wig­gle room. I am not the most orga­nized and dis­ci­plined per­son. I’m eas­ily dis­tracted and get side­tracked all too quickly.

Although I use sched­uled posts I still know I have to keep enough con­tent going to make that sched­ule. One thing I like about writ­ing for a blog/ site net­work is being account­able to stick to a sched­ule for posts too. You know you have read­ers expect­ing your con­tent but the best sit­u­a­tion is a writ­ing net­work where the writ­ers have a real com­mu­nity and THEY know your post­ing sched­ule too.

There are always going to be times when you have noth­ing to say. You’re just dry.

• Quo­ta­tions are good. You can find a quote that makes you laugh, makes you think or just amazes you. If you can find any­thing to add of your own, do so!. Although I have done so, it is not good to just post a quote and leave it there with­out any com­men­tary from yourself.
• Take a break from it. Come back when your mind isn’t pres­sured to write some­thing. Go brows­ing online at other sites in your niche. See what top­ics oth­ers have been writ­ing about. Any­thing you may have missed? Any­thing you can add your own slant, expe­ri­ence or infor­ma­tion to?
• Read other media, like the news­pa­per. Don’t get so caught up in your small cor­ner of the world that you for­get there is a lot out there, not all of it is online. Not all of it is even about blog­ging! Shock­ing, eh?
• Brain­storm a list of top­ics you could write about. Don’t hold back. Write down stuff that seems stu­pid and off­beat even. Give your­self at least one minute to warm up. Once you start ideas tend to flow.
• Best of all, keep an idea folder, stuff it full of things you want to write about, tid­bits of ideas you get when you are doing some­thing else, and stuff that has inspired you. Don’t rule out a topic just because your niche doesn’t directly relate to it. Think of a way that it does. Some really inter­est­ing posts have been cre­ated when some­one com­bined unusual top­ics, giv­ing new per­spec­tive to their topic.

Go forth and write. Let me know if you find blog­ging with dis­ci­pline works for you too. (It work won’t for everyone).

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