How to Get Ideas for Blog Posts

You're into your third month of blogging and everything is going great. Several people have subscribed to your RSS feed, you've gotten a good number of positive comments, and a few of your readers have even stumbled and tweeted your best articles. You sit down at your computer to write your next blog post when, suddenly, it hits you: you have no idea what you're going to write about.

Your mind is completely blank; it's a vast, endless ocean of white. You've completely lost your blogging mojo. OK, just write anything. "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain." Write it ten times. It's not helping. Take a break. Come back twenty minutes later. Nothing.

The above scenario can happen at any point during your blogging career: when you're first starting out, after you've been at it for a whole year, and even once you're a seasoned blog veteran. So, what do you do when you sit down to write a blog post and absolutely nothing comes to mind? You refer to this lens, of course, which I'm sure you've bookmarked.

In this lens you'll find loads of ideas for your next blog post.

(Match photograph courtesy of Funadium).