Written on November 27th, 2005 at 08:11 pm by Darren Rowse
Use Comments as Inspiration – Battling Bloggers Block
Blog Tip 14. Use Comments as Inspiration
Comment on Others Blogs – Have you ever started commenting on someone else’s blog and found that your comment turns into quite an epic!? You get to the end of it and you realize that you’ve been so inspired that you’ve virtually written a blog post? Maybe you have.
I quite often use the comments that I leave on other people’s blogs as the starting point for my own posts.
Of course I always link to the place I left the comment to acknowledge the blog that got my juices flowing – but reading and commenting upon other bloggers ideas is often a great way to break through bloggers block. Similarly participating in online forums that focus on the niche of your blog can help get you going. I quite often use what I write in forums as the basis for posts.
In the same way you can always mine (as in dig for gold) the Comments Section on Your Blog.
The comments section on your own blog can be a fertile ground for ideas for new posts. I’m often inspired by the comments left by readers here at ProBlogger and use them as the starting points for many of my new posts.
This is tip 14 of the Bloggers Blog Series
10 Responses to “Use Comments as Inspiration – Battling Bloggers Block” - Add Yours
Blog For Life
November 27th, 2005 8:38 pm
This is what i am trying todo, leaving comments on yout blog.. :D
Actually, i am a brand new blogger. I just started this blogging activity laste week. I am still a baby you know…
Inspired by many blogger success around the world, currently I am developing a blog about Blogger Success Stories, especially Indonesian Blogger. You know why?, because I am Indonesian.. :D
Do you want to give little comment on my blogs?…
I will be very happy…. hehe
Sincerely,
Blog-For-Life
http://adsense-success-indonesia.blogspot.com/
Martin (HOV)
November 27th, 2005 9:19 pm
You’re spot on there, Darren. Comments – leaving them and reading others – has no doubt been my number one slush pile for new post ideas.
Happy and Blue
November 27th, 2005 11:12 pm
Comments have been the basis of many of my posts. Just seeing what is currently being talked about on other blogs gives me a lot of ideas..
IO ERROR
November 28th, 2005 4:34 am
Oh yes, it frequently happens. Even as recently as my latest post, which started out as an aborted comment on another blog. I wrote maybe a paragraph, and decided I had a lot more to say than that, and so I blogged it myself and tracked back the other blog.
lavonne
November 28th, 2005 6:26 am
Great idea, thanks. One of my favorite sources is writing an email to a friend or colleague. By the time I’m done, I realize it’s too good to waste, and I blog it.
Darren Rowse
November 28th, 2005 7:13 am
Good idea Iavonne – that’s another one I’ve got in my list still to come – I use it regularly too.
callcentergal
June 13th, 2008 1:08 pm
Great idea there lavonne! Will try this in one of my post this weekend! =)
krissy knox
December 29th, 2008 12:19 pm
I have done this twice. Thanks for the reminder to do it more often, Darren.
Krissy :)
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/iamkrissy
used motorhomes
February 9th, 2009 3:49 pm
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Mini electric bikes
February 20th, 2009 3:55 pm
Thats gr8 one what i was looking for. I’m new blogger and just starting my blog rightnow.
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