Writing is the essence of bloggers. Besides the knowledge of HTML code, the participation in social networks or building a marketplace at their blog, writing is the basic of every blogger, making us writers.
I have read about some ideas to organize your thoughts before to write a post. From making drawings, I will give you my techniques to organize my ideas before to write a post:
- Making Mind Maps: A mind map is a visual representation of chunks of information and the relationships between those chunks. Starting with a central idea, you would create a basic mind map by writing a phrase that identifies the central idea in a piece of paper. Then, you should write keywords based on the main idea, linking them with lines. By following the lines, you will be able to visualize how you can detach the topic. After that, the ideas will start to drain through your neurons and you will write without problems. The concept of mind maps, is to connect the general idea with the most detailed ones.
- Writing Keywords: This can be or not, part of the Mind Maps. Writing many keywords will help you to have an idea about the things you can mention in your post. Once you wrote a keyword, is good to write a little text or whatever you have in mind, relating the keyword and the main topic. Sometimes, I use Google Sets, which automatically create sets of items from a few examples.
- FreeWriting: Sometimes, when you want to write something, you get stuck thinking in front the screen, trying to get something good. After a moment, you still thinking and having nothing of your post, something that can be frustrating. In these cases, you should write everything you think, being good or bad. You have not the need to write it with sense, the order doesn’t matter here, just write all the ideas that crosses your mind. Then, read and underline the good things you can use on your post, and your mind will link all the ideas automatically. Generally, I do this in a paper, and not in the computer.
- Setting Categories: Before to write about a topic, you should think big. More general than the idea itself, the category is an important factor which can help you to canalize your idea. In fact, the category is the major keyword of your post.
I know that sometimes, many bloggers get stuck writing a post, it happens to all us eventually. By following the four things listed above, you could easily organize and environment your post. If you have another way to organize your ideas before to write, comment it here, will be fine to hear other voices.
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That is a great article, very well written. Thanks.
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I should give the mind map thing a try.
I often will get an idea from a post on another blog. I like to use WordPress it or Windows Live Writer to make quote from an interesting part of that post and save a draft with a name of what I want to write about. If you’re not careful, this can lead to a lot of “me too” type of posts. I try to make sure my post, while related, is my ideas not those from the original post.
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Thank you for the tips in your article. I will remember them the next time I write a post on my blog.
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For me – if I can’t think of anything, I will just walk away. Go do something else and say the heck with it. Usually, if I clear my mind – it comes to me, and then I will post.
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. These tips are the most common, also they work very fine on me.
@Simple Mindz Sure! is good to clear your mind, if you get completely stuck, is better to leave it and try it later.
I think you have great tips! And I think too, that we all need to find just what works for us. There are so many different things out there to get us going in the right direction, the possibilities are endless!
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That’s truth, as human beings we have different ways to operate
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Isn’t that the truth! That is a very, very good thing…
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Once I began to read this, I did a Google image search for ‘mind maps’ and found some awesome tips about a wide variety of things. I’d like to take advantage of this technique and will see how it works to organize my ideas in the future.
Thanks for the tip.
Mind Maps are a great tool, try them!
Nice article. Very thoughtful. The way I write is to come up with a topic and try to formulate one or two interesting lines for the introduction. After that, I just start writing. Whatever comes to my mind. More or less free flow. The hard part comes in when I edit. That’s when I do the visual mind mapping, grammatical and spelling error corrections, and trying to make the article more interesting. It doesn’t always work, but eight times out of ten, I think I hit the mark. Come on over to my blog and let me know.
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Nice point Lights. I also write the first paragraph ( a little introduction to the topic ) and then the ideas come by themselves
I have a little different method, actually.
i write down drafts and then putting them in order. adding paragraphs here and there and lastly, i look for words that can be replaced with popular keywords.
Mind maps is a great idea to make a brain with yourself, thanks for the useful tips
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Hey Louis, I also use that technique sometimes, that’s what I called FreeWriting. I just write and write things without sense, and then I put them in order to create a post… That’s effective too!
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Amazing article! Detailed and very interested. I am going to recommend this blog to my friends.
A nice way of organizing a post. ‘Google set’ option seems to be pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I would love to hear your comments on selections of keywords in my posts.
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thinking before you write is good. Sometimes you may get tied, but its best to have a writing plan.
I think the problem people have when writing is to position there thoughts before writing. It’s more easier to get your thoughts right before writing. Good post!
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