I’m lucky to enjoy writing, but sometimes even I (Louise) find it a challenge to come up with new ideas for blog posts, newsletters, and articles. Being a great believer in keeping things as simple as possible, I’ve come up with a few ideas to make writing less of a chore, and thought you might find them helpful too.
Have a plan
While you still have to write the piece, at least you’ll know what the topic is! Plan at least a month ahead, and don’t forget to tie the topic in to any new event, product or service launch you have coming up.
Capture ideas
Just as I encourage my coaching clients to keep an ‘ideas book’ for their entrepreneurial flashes of inspiration, ideas for articles will often occur to you at the oddest times! Write down those little gems immediately and return to expand on them at your leisure.
Record it
If you really find writing difficult, try using a digital recorder to talk about your topic. Then get someone to transcribe it for you and, voila, you have an article ready to go!
Use it again
When you’ve been writing for a while, you’ll accumulate a nice stock of articles. You don’t have to write brand new material every time. Sorry to say, but your readers won’t remember every one of them as clearly as you do. Use them again.
Re-purpose material
If you’ve written an article for your newsletter that you’re pleased with, don’t keep it a secret! Submit it to other publications, both offline (your local newspaper perhaps) and online (ezinearticles.com is the best known). If it’s a long article, publish short ‘chunks’ on your blog to make up a series of posts.
These are just a few ideas. Do you have any writing tips to share? We’d love to hear from you.
