Better Blogging sometimes it is best to think about the idea first

Posted by admin on January 29, 2009 at 12:36 pm.
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Sometimes you have the best idea ever for a blogging article, but you have a hard time putting it on paper. You start, stop, start, clear the page, start over again, and still not end up with the blog entry you wanted or intended.

The problem isn’t that you can’t blog, but that the idea needs more time to perk through your head to come up with the way that you want to say what you want to say. This is not writers block, this is more around the idea that sometimes it is best to wait until you have all the words together in your head before you commit them to bits on the internet.

Some articles you are thinking about will never be written, they probably were not meant to be. Some articles will be written and will do well gaining a large readership. Most of the time the article will never come out right and you end up with something that pleases no one, yourself or your readers.

This is also OK.

Sometimes it is a good idea to slow down and work through what you want to write about before you actually do it. The best ideas are those that take a while to perk in your head before you commit them to the data stream.

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One Comment

  • Brian DR1665 says:

    You hit the nail on the head with this one. There is that feeling you get when the idea, in its roughest form, begins to materialize in your mind.

    It’s like there is this unseen army down in the boiler room, shoveling coal into the furnaces and you can feel the fires growing. The pressure begins to build and you are eager to get underway, but you have to temper that desire to make sure you reach the point where you are able to push full steam ahead with the piece.

    The wonderful world of unpublished drafts, right?

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