Bloggers Block

It’s kind of obvious that bloggers don’t always have much to say. That can be a problem, because the blog consists of what is blogged. Considering the number of bloggers, and the banality of most of our lifes and thoughts, bloggers block must be not such an uncommon phenomenom. I recently saw a good blog on means to combat bloggers' block. The blog was unfortunately not in English, but I’ll just steal the basic ideas and make them mine:

So, on the methods, the first and the most common approach is silence. When you don’t have anything to say then you simply don’t say anything. Even if it was for weeks. This is a common reaction and if it wasn’t the internet would surely be much more clogged up than it is with completely useless, uninformative information.

Number two is nagging. Then you nag and whine about everything that annoys, upsets, angers or frustrates you or in some way hampers your existence. You can also moan about the difficulties you’re having with blogging. I guess you will have to have something of a fresh angle ever to make this sound interesting though.

The third way is provocation. Then you put forward some provoking, unsubstantiated opinions or judgements, wait for people to pick up the thread and comment on your statements and then comment on the comments. That should keep you going for a while.

The fourth method is banality. Then you blog about any trivial incident of your day, down to brushing your teeth and what you had for breakfast. Just as exciting as a school assignment.

Method number five is lies. Just lie that something interesting happened to you. It doesn’t need to be plausible, actually the more outrageous, the better. What a crazy idea. But funny, right?