I don’t care how much of a writing machine a person happens to be.  Even those ferocious and seemingly unstoppable bloggers that routinely crank out up to three full posts per day occasionally find that they simply can’t find anything to write about at the moment.

Every writer has faced the dreaded blank page.  Each of us has found that we just don’t have any words, no matter how hard we try to coax our muse out of hiding.

Sometimes all it takes is a spark of inspiration to get your creative juices flowing and in that bent, I’ve started trying to find new inspirations for this and my other blogs.

I’ve found a few great sources of inspiration and I felt compelled to share them, so here you go:

• 100 Sources of Blogging Inspiration,
  A great article at Ink Rebels with a full hundred ideas to get you more motivated
• 100 Blog Topics Chris Brogan hopes YOU write
  If there’s anyone you want to learn from, it’s Chris Brogan, and he has ideas for you
• Keep it going: Blog inspiration
  A good article by Elliot C. Black with tips for keeping that content flowing
• Hot Topics
  An unusual tool that opens seven pages of related topics from a keyword search, possibly useful, kind of fun
• the LinkBait Generator
  If you’re the kind of writer that absolutely must have a title before you can write, this might just be the tool to help you out.
• 7 Places I Find Blog Topic Ideas
  A good article on SitePoint on how one blogger keeps his content fresh.
• Prompts, Story Ideas and Photo Inspiration
  If you’re a visual person, having a picture to spark your creativity can be just the thing
• Using Google Alerts for Blog Post Topic Inspiration
  Automate your inspiration process with Google Alerts.
• 25 Great Sources of Blog Ideas and Inspiration
  Comprehensive and insightful article by SiteSketch
• The Cosmo Headline Technique for Blogging Inspiration
  Trust Coppyblogger to have a great tip for getting inspired
• Unusual, Cheeky and Fun Ways To Get Inspiration For your Blog Posts
  A good collection of tips for finding new post ideas
• The Imagination Prompt Generator
  Really stuck for an idea?  This can help you out
• Get inspiration from blog comments when writing your next post
  We should already be doing this, but it’s good to keep in mind

I could go on, but with several hundred (or thousand) ideas already included in this list, I’m sure you’ll find something to get you motivated. I know I did.

Now get out there and Blog!

If you’ve been looking into the Internet marketing or blog scene for any time at all you will have heard the saying; “Content is King.” It’s used day in and day out by every A-List blogger and marketing specialist. Every Internet marketing manual has this as its mantra and rightly so.

Original content that provides value is essential in gaining readership. It’s the reason that people choose to follow one blog out of the hundreds or thousands of blogs written on any given topic. If you’ve got a new spin on something, people will notice. Fail to be original and they will notice that too, but not in a good way. That type of notice results in one thing only. It results in people reading someone else’s work, not yours.

When you’re first starting out it may seem impossible to come up with original ways to cover the same information that other people have already covered, but as long as you tackle a subject from the perspective of your own experiences, your writing will always have a fresh and original feeling about it.

Your Experience Matters

Always work to put your own thoughts and insights into what you blog about. Readers will come for your unique perspective on an issue. Eventually they will come to you first because they like your views or particular angle of approaching an issue more than those of other bloggers in the same field (or niche).

If you’re writing about a topic you are familiar with, you can’t help but have an air of authority in your tone. After all, you know your topic and you’re passionate about it. That passion comes through even in the written word. People respond to passion in a positive way and will come back to see what you have to say next.

In writing on topics that you are passionate about, you leverage experiences that your readers may or may not have had. You will quickly find that people regard you as an expert in your field, so write about what moves you and do so in your own voice. You will be rewarded for it in the end.

Find Your Own Unique Angle

One of the biggest problems that people have when blogging has nothing to do with the lack of traffic coming to their site; It’s a symptom of something more sinister. Bad content. Even worse than poorly written original content is content that is not original at all. This is the death bell for all blogs that want to be taken seriously.

Using your own experiences as a basis for your posts is a simple way to make sure that your posts are original and come from your perspective. Don’t just write the same article that interested you on another blog. Take the subject and make it your own. Look at it from your own very unique perspective.

You HAVE to have unique content. It is the lifeblood of blogging. Your experiences make what you write unique. Don’t hesitate to take a page from your own life when writing a post. It keeps your content fresh and immediately makes it your own.

It’s your unique perspective on an issue or topic that will keep your readers interested. If you are writing the same content that all of your competitors are writing, you have nothing new to add to the discussion. Your opinion matters, never forget that.

Fighting Writer’s Block With PLR Articles And E-Books

It happens to every writer at one time or another. You it in front of a blank entry form or word processor document and realize that you have absolutely no idea what to write. Even if your mind is reeling with ideas, you can’t find a way to get them onto the page or get into a groove to let your writing flow.

Most of the time all it takes to break the cycle of writer’s block is simply to start writing something. For me at least, it will get my creative gears turning and sooner or later something coherent flows from wherever it is that all my ideas twist in the shadows of my mind.

On the days when there are no ideas coming to the front at all, I use my secret weapon, PLR documents.

For those who don’t know; PLR stands for Private Label Rights. PLR documents are purchased either individually or by subscription. Once purchased you have the right to reuse the information in that document in just about any way you wish. You own full rights to the piece and can simply republish it with your name on it or use it as the jumping off point for your own work.

I rarely suggest using these pieces as-is. For the most part they weren’t very good articles in the first place. They are often riddled with misspellings and inaccuracies that render them less than ideal for use in the form that they come in out of the box.

They are however, the perfect place to get an idea and to have an example of what’s been written on the subject previously. It’s a great starting point for research and brainstorming that can lead to some truly great article writing.

My personal resource for PLR Articles is Gabor Olah’s PLRWholesaler.com. I’ve had a platinum membership at this site for some time and have benefitted greatly from the articles in his library, having used them to find ideas on a variety of topics.

Don’t believe me? You wouldn’t be reading this if it weren’t for an article in Gabor’s library.  A thirteen page guide to making millions of dollars and retiring by the age of 20 sparked an idea. It was horribly written and almost completely wrong on most topics, but it got me thinking about whether or not I could write something similar and more importantly, something that was actually useful. The end result is the work you are reading now, which I hope is both of those things.

Granted, a platinum membership does cost a small amount of money. If you can’t afford that there is a free option, but it doesn’t compare to the benefits and resources available with the paid membership to Gabors’ site or others of its kind.

Don’t think that PLR Wholesaler is the only option however. It’s just the company that I use. A search for PLR Articles on Google will give you a slew of options in this arena. These articles are useful tools, don’t overlook them.