What to Blog About Next

“Aha! I’ll blog about that next. Wait a minute…”

I am often plagued with questions on what I could write next in my blog. Below are a few that came to the top of my head as I figured out what to write.

Can I write anything in my blog?

If you are writing for a blog that caters to a certain niche, then it may be hard to give a “yes” to this one. Although I have read some sites where bloggers wrote something different from the site’s topic, it was a bit related.

However if it is your own blog, then the answer would really depend on you. Can you make your post related to your site? Should you make it related or is it too personal that writing anything that comes to the top of your head is fine?

While Mauru’s Realm was designed to be my portfolio site, I also post related things in my life which I hope could interest or help you.

Can I write more about a topic previously covered?

The need to write more about a previous topic that you have written on can be seen from comments or the article written.

Some readers would leave comments and ask for more regarding that topic. (See how important comments are?) As the blogger of that article, you are more or less needed to respond to that demand. While the demand for writing more based on this reason may not arise immediately, it is certainly visible. How can you resist not writing more about something if your comments are filled with “Can you please write more about this?” or “I want to read more on this topic”?

There are also some times when a topic is too broadly written that you can further write about it. I sometimes write on things too broadly. I was not due to my laziness. It wasn’t, really.

Some topics are just too hard to compress in a few pages that would not intimidate the average reader or make use of one’s time too much. Writing further sub-topics and linking the together is not a bad idea.

Should you decide to write more on a previously covered topic, you will have the opportunity to create what is known as a “Series Post.” It is a group of related posts or topics which can be presented to the reader in a chronological order. The decision to do so rests on you, though. The way you structure your next post will be different from a simple follow-up post. It should be written in a certain order, much like how we watch a television series. You cannot quite call it a series post if you make a couple of posts which just randomly jumps from the end to any part in the middle… Unless you would want to pull it off that way, I guess.

Should I read other blogs and build or expand on their ideas?

Blogging builds communities that are interested in similar topics by linking or referencing other bloggers’ works (What is a Blog). It is not a bad idea to write more on another person’s article or blog. The reason could be similar to the previous question, except it was done by another person, and not you.

When we read, we tend to get ideas on stuff. It gets our mind running. Our thoughts on the matter can be expressed in our own blog.

Just don’t forget to link that blog you were talking about.

For example, I loosely based this post about a Series entitled How to Craft a Blog Post. When I read those blog entries, I got a few ideas juggled in my head. I felt that I should find a way to express those ideas. This was one of them. I wanted to share a few questions that were in my head in the hopes that it might help others such as you.

Do you have questions that help you in writing your blog posts? Feel free to share them in the comments.