Day 5/5: Inspirations for Writing Your Daily Blog
Inspirations for Writing Your Daily Blog
If you haven’t tried even one of my previous suggestions, I don’t know what to tell you. We’re on day five and it’s my last chance to find a method of inspiration to help you write your daily blog. You probably don’t want to know that I am not pulling my hair out with this assignment because I have trained my brain to just write what needs to be written. I also am here to tell you that writing gets easier with each little accomplishment, aka published blog entry. And, you have to begin building trust within yourself about your writing abilities and ideas.
Perhaps you have great ideas and lots of content but have some fear about your grammar and spelling. Sorry, that’s not a proper excuse! –aren’t you using MS Word or some other word processor with spelling and grammar checks before cutting and pasting your text into your unique blog entry? Look into your excuses…they are disguising the real reason you aren’t writing with ease.
Here’s tip number 5: Look to yourself first. In writing they always say that you should a.) write about what you know best and b.) write about what you are passionate about. If health is your topic of passion, add your personal health to the equation and see where it lands you. Inspirations for writing are alive and well within you. Let your first lesson in health for yourself be a guidepost for you. Tell people what it is about health knowledge that is the inspiration for writing your daily blog. If it isn’t clear to your readers, it probably isn’t your deepest passion and it probably isn’t the topic you know the most about. If this is the case, revisit your heart and mind and hit the restart button.
Side note: If you have tried one of my techniques for gaining inspiration for writing and it worked, please share your experience in the comment section. Thank you!
Day 4/5: Inspirations for Writing Your Daily Blog
Inspirations for Writing Your Daily Blog
Here’s my fourth tip of the week to get you going so put your seatbelt on! Get in your car, truck, RV, bike or on a bus and head towards your health food store. We’re using health as the subject this week and I am taking you to your favorite store that pertains to your topic for inspiration for writing your blog.
You can take your readers on a tour of your health food store that you personally shop in and help them understand your approach to better health. As you go down the aisles, look for different things that would spur you on to write about them. Does a particular product make you healthier than others? Are the ingredients in your favorite product superior than others? What do you know about how your health food store is organized? Can you introduce your reader to one of the workers at your health food store in your neighborhood? My point is that you can share with us, your readers, your personal shopping journey and make us feel like it was our journey to our favorite health food store and perhaps by doing so, we will learn how to better shop for supplements or foods and be healthier.
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables at a Market in Allepey, Kerala, India
On the way to and from your health food store that you buy your stuff from, I guarantee you that you will see and hear many things that will be of interest to your readers. What you think about and buy in your health food store will astound them. What about this: what would your ideal health food store look like? What would the customer service be like? Would the staff be any different? Share your ideas!
Day 3/5: Inspirations for writing your daily blog
Inspirations for Writing Your Daily Blog
If an A to Z list and bibliomancy don’t quite create inspirations for writing, you can always try the YouTube Method for inspiring great blog writing. That’s right! Open up a new browser page and bring up YouTube. Since we are using health as the topic example, if you simply type in that word up comes…half a million plus examples! Now, don’t get overwhelmed, simply refine your search with a single word or short phrase. Let’s try homeopathy for teething. Four video examples came up for review. How easy was that?
Inspiration for writing comes in many forms. Could you write a review of the 4 videos we just saw on homeopathy for teething? What if you had your own experience with this subject and could tell that story or make a video testimony about it. Consider how easy it would be to make a short video and summarize the essence of the video in two short paragraphs? What about a short story using photos and text on the subject of homeopathic remedies for teething babies.
Baby Yokel - Dem aren't no front teeth on dis 4 month old...it's dem little ole homeopathic teething tablets.
Let your experience guide you. YouTube is loaded with videos on health that will get your heart and mind racing. There is enough content on YouTube alone that will take you through a lifetime of writing on the subject of health alone. You can also create a table of information on YouTube videos for health that other people could use as a guide or rating system. What if you reviewed each video in a category so that people could easily access the top ten videos of health? You’d be their hero!
Day 2/5: Inspirations for writing your daily blog
Inspirations for Writing Your Daily Blog
If an A to Z list sounds too predictable –as in people might notice that you are writing alphabetically, you can always mix it up. Who said you have to start with “A” anyways? You really ought to go with the one that makes you passionate and excited to begin and not stop writing. “Take the easy throws”, that’s what my ultimate Frisbee coach always said to us; it was another way of saying “keep it simple”.
The second technique I will share with you to unlock your brain and get you writing again and often is something I call “Bibliomancy”. Bibliomancy is the use of books in divination. Simply open a book, hopefully a book that is on your topic, and start reading the paragraph that catches your eye. Using health as an example, I just so happen to have a copy of “Eat Fat, Lose Fat” by Dr. Mary Enig, PhD and Sally Fallon, President of the Weston A. Price Foundation sitting next to me. I randomly opened it to Chapter 7 on page 134 and it is talking about “Health Recovery”. I read on and find it is very exciting and it is beginning to create multiple inspirations for writing that could easily span a whole month!
- “Eat Fat, Lose Fat” by Dr. Mary Enig, PhD and Sally Fallon
Take some notes, then discard your notes so that your inspiration for writing comes from your heart and mind with just the essence of what you learned. The point is to get inspired, not report on what the author of the book you picked up wrote; although, if you do quote from the book, be sure to cite it properly.
Happy blogging!
Day 1/5: Inspirations for writing your daily blog
Inspiration For Writing Your Daily Blog
So you need some inspiration for writing. Who doesn’t?
Well, I have just the thing! This A-Z technique I am about to teach you can carry you through every month since there are 5 blogging days a week (22 to 23 days a month on average) –and 26 letters in the English alphabet. That gives you three or four letters that you can opt out of using, such as Q, X, Y and maybe Z.
Step 1 – Open up a new document in MS Word or whatever word processing software tool you use and make an A-to-Z list.
Save it as, for example, “December2009_AZList.”
Using the premise that you are writing a blog about health, fill in a topic or subject that you know about that starts with the letter “A”. Continue down the list of letters writing one or two words next to each letter. Here’s a partial list to show you how easy this could be: Read more
