Finding Inspiration For Your Next Blog Post

Posted by Madhavi on Dec 14, 2011 in Blogging | 0 comments

Writing and maintaining a blog can often start out as a very exciting opportunity. However, after a point of time, finding inspiration for your next blog post can become quite difficult, even for the most experienced among us. Today, I am going to share a few ways in which I find inspiration to write the different blog posts.

As the excitement of starting a new blog fades away, putting up regular blog posts and articles on your blog can turn into a very difficult task. Many of us find ourselves stymied by the prospect of coming up with topics and ideas to write that next blog post.

Here are a few places where I find my inspiration, and often come up with ideas and article topics to write my blog posts.

Finding Inspiration For Your Next Blog Post: RSS Feeds

RSS Icon I use Google Reader to subscribe to a variety of blogs pertaining to topics that interest me. Thereafter, I use the Reeder app on my Mac and the Mr. Reader app on my iPad to regularly read the different articles that get posted on those blogs.

Often, I read about things that interest me and inspire me, and before you know it, I have a bunch of titles that I come up with for my blog.

Finding Inspiration For Your Next Blog Post: Other Blogs

This is pretty much similar to the previous method, but with a slight twist. These are articles on the blogs that I haven’t subscribed to in my RSS Reader. Sometimes I come upon these articles casually while surfing the Internet, or while researching for my current article.

Also, I tend to notice the small and large things that the blog’s author may have touched upon in his article, and that suddenly sets a new thought process in motion, eventually inspiring me to write another article.

Finding Inspiration For Your Next Blog Post: Books I Read

I am a writer, yes. But I began my journey as a reader. And I read a variety of books on a number of topics – both fiction and non-fiction.

While I am not going to list my various interests over here, I can most definitely share with you the fact that the different topics that I end up reading about in these books has often served to spark my inspiration and boost my creativity.

Finding Inspiration For Your Next Blog Post: Experiences With Clients

Now, this is a really practical place where I unexpectedly find my creative juices flowing. As you may well know, I write for websites and blogs, and help my clients set up WordPress based websites. Sometimes, during my interaction with my client, I might be asked some seemingly innocuous questions about how to do a particular thing and so forth.

Naturally, this becomes fodder for my running list of article titles, and eventually appears on my blog as a post.

Finding Inspiration For Your Next Blog Post: Personal Experiences

And of course, to save the best for last, this is one of the best places for me to find inspiration the next blog post. I maintain my own website, and run my own freelance business. And during the course of all of this, I often encounter several different scenarios, which end up turning into blog posts on my site.

In Conclusion…

These are but a few of the places where I find inspiration for my blog posts. Of course, you might find inspiration in some other places as well! What are your sources of inspiration? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section below.