I need an IDEA!!

If you are a blogger like me and you cover a wide subject (also like me) you will find that on occasion you will go brain dead. Your beautiful and unlimited supply of ideas to write about will cease and you will watch your traffic suffer because of it. I have coped with this before, and I find that the following tips will help restart you creativity.

1)Paper and Pencil

This trick is amazing, it will always get you a topic guaranteed. Here is what you do, grab a piece of paper and a pencil. Then write down the following word: “Green”. Now write down the first thing that pops into your mind about green. In this case for me it would be vegetables. Since my blog is about technology related subjects and blogging, writing about vegetables isn’t going to help, so, I continue. Vegetables makes me think of plants, plants make me think about the environment, environment make me think about pollution, pollution about production. BAM, there you go I can write an article about a new computer model or do some research on how current computer manufacturers are doing and add my commentary to it. Of course the starting word doesn’t have to be “green”, that was just for a demonstration.

2)Distraction

This is also a good way to find a topic however the success rate is a bit lower than “Pencil and Paper”. What you do is simple. Go do something like randomly search youtube, facebook, flicker,or Wikipedia. However while doing this keep in mind interesting stuff you come across. These things can be subjects for posts later on.

3)Dream

This is a great way to come up with a topic for a post. This is also one of the easiest to do. First lay down somewhere, and start dreaming about your crazy goals. This isn’t the stuff you are working on, for example if you’re a software engineer, don’t dream about finishing and selling your software. Instead think in the extreme, for example creating artificial intelligence. Now take you dream and write a theory on how you could accomplish it, or what technologies already exist that provide the services needed to accomplish you extreme goal.

4)Music

This is helpful on occasion, but results can be very wacky and weird. Listen to different genres of music and close your eyes during the song. Chances are you will start coming up with random images that fit with the music. On occasion these things will be things that are post worthy.

There you have it, 4 tips to get your imagination going again, remember you can always find something to write about if you think really hard. Anyways I hope this helps some bloggers in need of ideas.

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