It happens to the best of us. You start off strong and with so many ideas, but then after a couple weeks, you begin with a lull of ideas and motivation to keep up with your constant blogging. Does this sound like you? Well, don’t stress! When trying to keep up with constant postings on a particular niche industry it can become hard for anyone to consistently bring out fresh and new ideas. So how can you keep your blog alive and stimulating while preventing boredom and mental fatigue from setting in? Here are a couple tips and tricks to help you build up your blogging stamina to keep up with your writing and posts!
Make Writing A Habit
The first step to conquering almost anything is consistency. If you find yourself doing most of your writing only when you become inspired or motivated, then there’s no way you’ll keep up actively blogging. Start by challenging yourself to write every single day, about anything in regards to your website. Just take the first ideas you come up with and write. It most likely won’t be some of your best work, but not every post will become your absolute favorite.
By building up content and posting more, you’re creating more for the people visiting your website to read and get familiar with your content. This creates a consistent viewer platform that leads to more views and regular visitors that are more likely to interact digitally, whether that leads to comments and reviews on your site or more social media followers. If you’re really struggling with keeping up with your writing, there are multiple websites, coaches, and even apps that specialize in creating a writing program fit to help keep you on track and online!
Think Outside the Box
There’s only so many different ways to word certain topics that may be a big part of your overall website or blog theme. In this case, one of the best ways to help your blog posts is to look at what your theme is or subject matter and take it from a different perspective.
Look at your audience, the people reading and interacting and see it from their perspective as well. This will create a list of different subjects to touch on as you continue your blog posts. It will also show your readers that they’re a part of your content as well and will only create more interaction, hence attracting more readers and more website views. Writing in a different perspective can also be a great way to just brainstorm and think about your writing style and the overall theme of your blog, which is another big aspect of creating regular content.
Call-To-Action
Something as simple as an outro-type call to action at the end of all your blog posts can make a significant difference. Not only are regular readers more inclined to interact, but with a regular call to action ending, you are encouraging people to continue to interact and look forward to you posting on other platforms. Incorporating your other platforms within your blog writing can be a great way to link everything together and create a full circle audience that interacts on all platforms. Blogging has been found to be the most time and cost effective with audiences than traditional marketing, which means you have a strong platform to create the content you would like in a creative way for you.
A call to action is also a great way to prompt commenting and interaction not just between readers themselves but also between you and the people reading your blog! This will allow you to get an idea of what topics prompt more interaction and which ones are kind of looked over. This will help you have an idea of what kind of content you may want to blog more about, meaning it’ll be easier on you if you know what people like to read from you!
Remember That This Is Your Blog
It’s really easy to get lost in the numbers game of blogging, meaning that you become very focused on the views and the number of comments and followers you seem to be getting. But something that you should always keep in mind is the reason why you wanted to start this blog in the first place. What were you trying to achieve? What kind of voice did you want this blog to have? What kind of platform do you want your blog to become? These questions will allow you to stay true to the nature of your blog, which in turn may help you feel a bit more in control about the content you are creating and will create in the future.
While creating content that is well-written and interesting is always your goal as a blogger, sometimes there are going to be those posts that need to go up because it’s just a part of the overall subject matter, or there’s that one reader that commented on it and wants to see a post about it. Just try to take it post by post, as to not overwhelm yourself with planning too much ahead, even though there should always be some planning for each post just not too far ahead. Don’t forget that while you want to please your readers and gain more of an audience, you started blogging for a reason and part of that is because you had a passion for what you wanted to write about, so write with that intention.
Your blog, no matter how small or how big, is your creation and outlet and there are no rules when it comes to writing for it. Keep yourself motivated and it’s okay to have a lull in amazing and interesting posts as long as you’re at least being consistent with your posting and staying true to the nature of your blog.