Posted by Karlo.PinoyBlogero on July 30th, 2007

Being a blogger who has gained a lot of experience and respect on the blogosphere, you were asked by an A-list blogger to create a guest post for his blog. Such an opportunity would greatly bring traffic to your blog, which is why you decided to impress everyone by creating an extensive high-quality article.

You were already in the middle of creating your article, when suddenly, you hands stopped typing. You try to move on but you can’t get to the next sentence. You let out a scream of utter annoyance angry at your misfortune.

“Aaaaargghhhh!”

Alas, Writer’s Block has struck again.

Breaking the writer's block - Pinoy Blogero.com
Getting Lost
A well-made article is a sure-way for anyone to effectively communicate their ideas to their readers. However, such articles are in need of great amount of time and thinking. With every effort to create a high quality article for our readers, we sometimes get lost in its complexity resulting to a writer’s block.So how can we get over writer’s block while maintaining a high-quality article? The answer is to make your article simple.

Keeping It Simple
A simple article? How can a simple article be of high-quality?

You might think that having a simplified article could not communicate a message effectively compared to a long and extensive article. On the contrary, simplified articles are also capable of sending the message across. It even make things easier for you and for your reader.

There are many ways on how to make your articles simple while making sure that the message is not sacrificed.

For example, when you want to explain a particular topic to your reader, instead of giving them an extensive explanation with full of details, you could make your explanation simple and give out a situation that can explain the topic. Or you could always link to other articles that has the same topic as yours.

You may also want to narrow your article’s topic to a more focused one. By doing so, you’ll have less chances of encountering a block when you jump to the next focus on your article. Choosing simple words and sentence constructions also helps.

There are lots of other ways in simplifying your articles for the sake of breaking the writer’s block. I suggest you try this tip when you are really stuck with a particular article and can’t get a way around.

You could also check out my other articles on breaking a writer’s block, Look for an Inspiration and Let Your Thoughts Flow.

Happy Blogging!

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13 Responses to “Keep It Simple - Breaking the Writer’s Block”

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    P.I.N.O.Y.U.N.I.T.E.D Says:

    It really depends on what you’re blogging. Too much or too little content can equally be problematic. I’m not a great blogger but I’d been reading blogs quite a bit recently. One of those blogs is this site. So Karlo might do some graphics for me he he he

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    Iantrepreneur Says:

    KISS - is very true keeping it simple is the way to blog about within the blogosphere! making things too technical can maybe direct readers elswhere

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    chris Says:

    i just always type and type and type and then when i feel im done, i edit.

    most of the time, even when i’ve posted something, i still edit.

    my writer’s block comes in the form of no ideas at all.

    i dont come up with anything.

    so i bang my head in the nearest hard surface and when after the blood oozes out. i have a new post already.

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