Fresh content is the bane of most bloggers and there are people who are willing to pay good money to learn how to keep generating fresh contents for their blogs. It is a good thing you have found this article series because the tips here are completely free. Remember to bookmark this page and search out the other parts of the series. By the time we are done, you will be able to keep on generating fresh content for whatever type of blog. So how do you keep generating fresh contents for your blog?
Classification of Your Blog
We want to throw a dragnet that can bring in as many types of fish as possible. That is, I want this to serve as many type of bloggers as possible. The first thing is to classify your blog. Consider and answer the question below: There are more questions but they will be addressed as this series continues.
Is it A Personal Blog?
Creating fresh content for personal blogs can be easy. Most personal blogs have a license to rove, meaning the blogger can talk about pretty much anything that tickles his or her fancy. Today it might be politics and the next day it might be an episode of Game of Thrones. This gives you the personal blogger a wide area to gather enough material for his or her blog.
If you are having problems with generating fresh content on a personal blog, the answer could drift closer to the borders of the land called Laziness, you know: that country that is far from the city called Discipline. However, the person may have an issue with Time but it could be closer to Waning Passion as most personal bloggers start with a burst but start sputtering 10 meters out.
By the way, any personal blogger that wants to keep on generating fresh content has to tackle the issues typed in bold letter above. This is especially so when their personal blog is the setup in such a manner that it gives them license to rove. Today I am feeling rather generous so I will help with a couple of unusual tips as it concerns how to tackle the issues in bold above.
Laziness
You may have to go the way of the AA and first admit that the problem you have with your blog is laziness. This is one step away from solving the problem of laziness and the only way to do that is to stand up and do something. However, a really unusual tip that could help you deal with laziness is not to fight it but work with it. Move over to the paragraph below to get the gist of what I am saying.
Working with Laziness
Laziness is really stubborn, which is a surprise because you might want to presume that it should be a push over. It is very difficult to shake laziness out of the system and you have to exert much energy to fight it. Another uncanny thing about laziness is that it works on slowing you down so that if you do not exert enough initial force to fight it and add something extra to sustain that force, the tendency to go back to that state of inertia becomes compelling.
The Person Called Laziness
Therefore, you have to first respect laziness as a worthy opponent. In case you have not noticed this already, I am personifying laziness (believe me it is for your own good). An enemy is only worthy of our consideration if we first regard it as an intelligent being (else we just do not have the time to deal with an inanimate object). We do not even give humans a second thought if we think they are below our intelligence. Hence, the first thing to do is to personify laziness. Yes, go as far as given it a name of your choice if you have to and see how the enemy called laziness becomes real.
The Worthy Opponent Called Laziness
The second thing to do after personifying it is to respect it as a worthy opponent. Refuse to fall into the temptation of raging against it unintelligently after personifying it (believe me on this). The next thing is to work with it rather than fight against it.
Working With Laziness: Lie Down
You can work with laziness in several ways. I earlier said stand up and do something. Do not stand up because that signifies fighting it, which you will most probably lose. Rather than stand up, lie down. Since laziness has imprisoned and confined you to the bed and placed impregnable barricades to your writing desk and system, bring your system to the bed.
Working With Laziness: Other device
Another way of tricking laziness into allowing you to work is to use another device. For instance, if you use a standard desktop and you have to go to it in other to write and post on your blog, switch to a laptop (tab, mini-tab or Smartphone) on your bed. It could be anywhere but your normal place of writing, which laziness has nuked and it has now become toxic.
The Weakness of Person Called Laziness
This might sound stupid but it works, you can beat laziness not by fighting it but by working with it. If you used to write five thousand words at a sitting before the hordes of laziness overran your land, start by doing just 250 words. Laziness will allow you but this is its Weakness because the moment you start at that level, it builds your drive and revs it up. You will eventually kick laziness out but it does not know it yet.
Muse on this a bit and for those whose sole problem in generating fresh content is laziness, quickly put the tips above into action. Next stop, addressing issue that could be preventing some from generating content on their personal blog and remember that we still look at non-personal blogs in this series.
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