Writing articles for a blog can be a problem when you don’t have inspiration, those days when you don’t have idea about what to write. As I mentioned before, if you don’t have inspiration it will be better for you to take some free days, and after then you could go back to the work.

That’s great, but in this post I’m going to give you some tips about how to get inspiration almost instantaneously! Yes, do you think that bloggers write articles by their own every day? Of course not… Well let’s stop talking and let’s review my main sources of inspiration!.

1- Reading my own articles: May be you can be thinking Are you serious? You gotta be kidding me… But yes! Reading your own articles can give you inspiration automagically and I’m going to tell you why. Sometimes when we write things, we leave -unconsciously- some ideas in the air, and waiting to be developed. By reading your own past posts, you can discover some of those undeveloped ideas and then you can get inspiration to write something completely new, being related with your old post.

2- Reading other people’s articles: I am subscribed through RSS feed to 60 blogs more or less. Blogs about blogging, making money online, tech, design, random and crazy, politics and many other things… Normally, I have about 600 unread posts, but I try to keep that number as low as I can. WIth all those information comming from many sites, everytime I open my Google Reader is such as a big brainstorm. By reading many of those articles from different bloggers you can get another perspective of a specific topic, giving you the inspiration you need to create a killer blog post.

3- Searching for something: Many times I have been looking for something on Google, but after reading many sites I don’t find the information that I expected before. But wait a minute, if I couldn’t find anything about X topic, why don’t I write something about it on my blog?! It has happened to me some times and I’m sure that it has happened to you too. So if the thing you have been looking for many hours is related with your blog, go ahead and write exactly what you were expecting to read in other sites, be the first on providing that information!.

4- Talking with friends: This is my main source of inspiration. Every time I talk with a friend about my online businesses, he or she asks me many things that I never thought to write about on my blog. Everything starts when the person tells me that it was looking for X information but it never found something clearly explained, and it asks me for tips. After that, my brain starts thinking and linking many concepts, creating a big package of information and preparing it to be blogged. So, if you have friends who make businesses on internet, talk with them! Share your tips and you will see that at the end of the conversation, you will have great material to write about.

Also once you have a topic to write about, you can try to detach it in some pieces, let’s say 3. So then, you can create 3 separate posts about the same topic but with different points of view, or may be dealing with different characteristics… When a topic is too big you can create a series of posts and linking each chapter with the other ones. By doing that, you will be giving plenty of content in a pleasant way without boring your readers.

And you? Where do you get inspiration from? Share your main sources!