What If I Run Out of Ideas - Or Don't Have Any To Start With?

I bet your biggest stumbling block to starting a blog is your Fear Of Content. Maybe you're excited about beginning your own online repository for your brilliant ideas, but can't take that crucial next step. Or you're exhausted from battling a severe brain fog.

The Fear can take a number of forms:

1. Fear of not defining your "niche" area;
2. Fear of your words sounding dumb;
3. Fear of your ideas getting criticized;
4. Fear of coming up with something every day - and how you'll feel when you hit a roadblock.

You'll probably hate me for this, but I don't have this problem. Strike that - I do have this problem, and all these fears. I've been writing scripts long enough (and have had critics rip them apart) that I've developed the proverbial "thick skin." Writing may not be as simple as a-b-c, but I can pretty easily vanquish many of my anxieties. And if I'm having trouble on a particular day, I know where to go for help and inspiration.

In addressing the #4 fear above, some established bloggers have come up with all kinds of ideas to help you generate ideas. Here's where you can go for more help:

I Help You Blog compiled 101 great posting ideas that will make your blog sizzle.

ProBlogger tells us How to Generate High Quantities of Content for Your Blog
and gives us weapons for Battling Bloggers Block.

And Lifehack ties it all together for the blogging beginner and promises riches in line with our wildest dreams in Beginner’s Guide: Start a blog, get 100,000 page views and make over $100 your first month.

Chances are you've got something in your past or hidden in your secret reserves which, if tapped into, will turn you into a content-generating monster. I know that my experience sitting down in the evening, night after night, pounding out play scenes and screenplay pages - and having them read, responded to, produced, and critiqued, has given me an ability to constantly generate article ideas. I write all of them down - even if they're just a sentence or a headline - and go back later to flesh them out. Sometimes they work, other times they refused to take on any mass. But having a big list of possible ideas does great things for my self-confidence. And having people like what they read - that does even more!