Comments on: 7 Ideas to Make Blogging Your Creative Habit

By: Elva Moser

Elva Moser — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:11:12 +0000

This is such a good article! I especially appreciate how you focus on positive tricks of discipline and creativity.

I started a blog in February. I wrote only 4 posts and told no one about it. I had the same doubts and questions that Shane S mentions above. Like Shane S, I too have lots of ideas for other projects.

By: Wayne Pruner

Wayne Pruner — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:59:44 +0000

You are spot on with your advice. I am always struggling to write good blogging articles. You are absolutely right about creativity becoming a habit or discipline. When I force myself to sit down and write, the creative juices start flowing after awhile and I can come up with many topics. Next term I am going to take a magazine writing article class at the local community college and see if that helps.

By: Valeria Maltoni

Valeria Maltoni — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:03:39 +0000

@Bill — it happens to everyone, even famous choreographers. I think the secret is learning how to manage yourself and set energy aside for those rainy days. I’m like you with content, I need to deliver according to my value proposition.

@Shane — so you are moving to Japan! That is very exciting news. It’s one of the places I’d like to visit one day. Glad you’re tuned in to where you’d like to go next, that’s important.

By: ShaneS

ShaneS — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:07:04 +0000

Thanks for the feedback and encouragement. So funny that this caught my attention on the same day as Chris G wrote “Just Jump In!” – maybe it’s the universe telling me something? Onward an upward – from a personal blog to who knows where!

By: Hopkinton MA Real Estate

Hopkinton MA Real Estate — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:44:20 +0000

I find that on some days I am full of great ideas and others it is like you describe – A big blank white screen. I am with you on writing spur of the moment…some of my best post have been just a thought popping into my head and then writing. In Real Estate it seems that there are many bloggers that just pop out a post as fast as they can with no thought to the content. I know I could do that as well but can’t bring myself to doing it.

By: Valeria Maltoni

Valeria Maltoni — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:22:37 +0000

Of course I had to get your name wrong, Shane :D

By: Valeria Maltoni

Valeria Maltoni — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:22:00 +0000

Go for it, Sheila. Ideas get better when they have air to breathe and context to develop. I know creative types especially need a lot of feedback — the sensibility that makes you good at being that way is also what makes you vulnerable.

That’s why you find a validation squad. It’s more than a mentor, it’s a sounding board. You need to hear your idea out loud to think it through.

By: ShaneS

ShaneS — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:12:47 +0000

This is a great article and a concept that I have been struggling with lately. I have been working on a personal blog but I have some ideas for other web projects. But will anyone but me be interested? Should I write for money or altruistically? Probably a bit of both.

So the question becomes do you jump in with both feet and give it your best, improving as you go, or do you sit on the sidelines afraid that your work won’t be good enough or that it will be ignored entirely?