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5 Reasons to use Post Ideas to Avoid Writers Block

How often do you find yourself struggling to find new topics to blog about? Do you ever wish you had a way to totally eliminate writers block? Sometimes it’s just not practical to walk around with a pen and notepad to jot down ideas. And if you’re like me, then you’ve tried the notepad thing but ended up with hundreds of sticky notes all over the wall.

Not the greatest look when you have visitors over, a business presentation, or if you want to make a video. So what is the solution?

That’s simple! As usual it’s a plugin for WordPress call Post Ideas. It’s a very lightweight plugin that has proven to be my savior when it comes to ideas for blog posts, and here’s 5 great reasons for you to use it as well.

1. Never Forget The Big Topics

Almost every blogger has had times, usually at the very beginning of their blogging career, when you have a flood of ideas. You work so hard to get them all written, but often will only get a small amount of them published. Then one day, out of nowhere, your mind goes blank.

Post Ideas is an easy way to save all those ideas right inside your WordPress blog. No matter if you’re in the middle of writing a post, or even if you’ve just popped in to check your stats, in just a minute or 2 you can write a brief summary of your idea and write about it later.

2. Build A Cache

As time goes on, you write new posts, and read other blogs and websites that you’re interested in. You’ll no doubt get some new ideas.

How often do you keep track of them?

Most likely they’re gone by the time you’ve finished reading. Keep the Post Ideas page open while you read your favorite blogs and websites and as those ideas come to mind, record them, and write about them later. In fact you could spend a day just building up ideas so that you never run out.

3. Eliminate Writers Block

That’s right – no more writers block. Ever!

It happens to us all. No matter how hard we try, there are times when we couldn’t even buy an idea. And sometimes it seems that the harder we try the more difficult it is to come up with a great new post idea.

When you start to build a cache of ideas, you’ll never have to worry about writers block ever again. Just sift through all those post ideas you’ve been saving and start writing. The more often you record your ideas, the less often you’ll find yourself with a lack of them.

4. Prioritize Your Ideas

Some ideas are better than others. On this I am certain we agree. Using the good old fashioned notebook and pen is the age old method of recording ideas. But once you have 3 or 4 notebooks filled with ideas, how do you keep track of the best ideas so that you can use them later on?

Post Ideas allows you to set a priority on the idea as you record it. Simply assign a priority based on how good or bad you think your idea is. Then when you need to find your best ideas for a blog topic, forget wading through pages in notebooks. Sort your ideas by priority and pick one of your top 5. Simple!

5. Use Keywords and Link

If you’re anything like me then you visit a lot of web sites and blogs each week. You want to write a post that compiles a bunch of information from some of them and you want to give a point of reference or maybe attribution to that web site. But, do you remember which site you saw that information on?

What about those times you read a post at some obscure blog and thought, that would be a great post idea and I could easily target these great keywords. A week later you decide to write the post. Do you remember the keywords?

Yeah, me either. I always forget these things unless I have a simple way to record them, but more importantly (to me at least) a simple way to retrieve them.

You can do all that with Post Ideas. As you surf the web, you get a new idea about a post it’s not enough to just record the topic idea. You need to record those sites you want to refer to and you want to record the keywords to target as well. Just add them in as you write your post idea and the plugin will save it all for you. As soon as you’re ready to write it, the information will be there as fresh as if it were just yesterday.

Discussion

How do you deal with writers block and what methods do you use to make sure you never run out of fresh ideas to write about? Let us know by leaving your comments.

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