by Mark E. Mason on January 30, 2009
If you blog, then you know what it can be like to be stuck. You need to write, but you just cannot find the motivation.
A proven way to succeed in writing when ideas don't come easily is to use quotations. Finding famous quotes from United States Presidents, Diplomats, Actors, Scientists, Inventors and the like, always makes for good reading and inspiration.
Apply The Genius Of A Genius
For example, American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once stated “Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.”
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by Mark E. Mason on January 19, 2009
One of these pieces of advice that I constantly hear regarding blogging is that bloggers should post on a regular schedule. If you've read my blog for any amount of time, then you know I am terrible at this. The excuse that I use is that I have a day job and sometimes I am just too busy to write a post.
The reality is sometimes I know I need to write a post but I can't decide what to write about. Some people call this writer's block. I call it a lack of inspiration. I think perhaps the best name for this problem in this context is blogger's block. Do you have bloggers block?
Here are a few ideas for beating bloggers block:
1. Keep a list. The best way to defeat bloggers block is to maintain a list of great blogging ideas. Any time an idea occurs to you, you should add it to the list. This means you need to keep the list with you in the shower. I will leave it to you to figure out how to manage that.
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