I'm finding it harder and harder to blog these days. The topics just won't come. Maybe that's a good thing, because that means things are going well, right? And no one wants to hear how boring my life is. So last night I literally starred at a blank screen in typepad for 3 hours before I closed it. There was some screwing around on twitter and words with friends during those three hours, but there was a lot of, I HAVE NOTHING TO BLOG ABOUT ANGST.
So tell me, how do you break through bloggers block? Or do you just bag it and come back another day?
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I’m not a real blogger so I don’t know if my answer counts. I get bloggers block all of the time. It takes me forever to get a post published. There are many nights I just quit and turn off the computer (well I don’t turn it off, I just play around on Twitter). And this us why I only manage to publish 2-3 posts a month. Oh well.
I look forward to reading more posts when your blogger block ends.
I bag it and come back later. I used to fret about posting or not posting, but I am in a Life is Short frame of mind lately.
I come back another day. In fact, I only blog (on my main blog) when I have an idea before hand. My problem is remembering that I don’t have to blog about every stupid little thing that happens. So it sounds like you might be ahead of me.
I write about mundane stuff no one cares about. Just writing something usually clears it up.
“Nothing to Blog About Angst” is the best kind of angst, really. And I love the new, improved header.
Well, you can always go through your photos on your iPhone for inspiration, oh wait that’s what I do.
Or you can rant about something from Twitter, I did that last night.
Or Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop, she posts topics every week.
Or ya, well I’m stumped too…
If I force it, which I have done in the past…it’s a useless lame post that no one reads. If I give myself a break for a few days, sometimes I find that I do have words. Other times, then I force it again. ha.
Pictures. That’s what I normally put up if I don’t have anything to say.
Depends on how long the block has been around for. If it’s day or two I leave it. If it’s longer I force it and it usually comes back. Actually, I will often write about a topic that I’ve never written about – something new and fresh often helps.
I don’t think it is so much that you “have nothing to blog about” so much as “I can’t blog about the things I need to blog about”… Just know that we are hoping that those “virtual blog entries” start working themselves out!
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I just post when I post. I especially give it a break in the summer. For some reason I just can’t get too many posts up in the summer. Or it could be the twitter/wwf/facebook games addictions that get in my way. Whatever it is… I try not to fret over the blog.
I’ve been suffering a lot of blogger’s block for months now. I feel like not much is going on, and even the more mundane things that I could turn into some fun writing — eh. I don’t have the energy. I feel tired, like my brain can’t handle being A WRITER after a day of work and chores and child.
Blegh. It’ll pass. I know it will. I just end up not writing. I prefer that over writing crap.