Hey thanks Mert. This is a great article to help overcome writer’s blog and being a bit more systematic about the approach – I have seen similar approaches taught on places like tubetorial, but I like your way of describing it! This would cleary be a fantastic way of planning and writing future articles, to reduce the pressure of writing every day (especially if one couldn’t blog for a day/week for some reason – we could have a ‘supply’ of articles ready to go using this approach !

This approach can also trigger more motivation because drawing through mindmaps is a creative process in-it-self, and will thus get the ideas and creativity or ‘writing juices’ flowing too.

The key point is starting! Once started – using this approach – I think people will be surprised at the number of ideas they actually do have, which will ‘pour’ out of their minds! Another great trigger to help in this mindmapping process is just by reading in the area of your blog goals (eg books, other blogs) – they might just trigger a possible title for a new article

Bubbl.us is also a great tool – another great online mindmapping tool people might be interested in is mindmeister – plus you can share it with others/they can edit (especially if you have a team of authors for your blog) – or you can download free desktop mindmapping software – freemind (I forget the link, so perhaps google it)

So thanks for this Mert! I was also wondering if you could possibly turn your article above into an ARTICLE SERIES?? This would be great to learn more from your experience using this approach (I have used similar, but not yet systematically with software – just scribbled mindmaps in my notebook!).

For example(?) – I would love to see articles in a series –

– ‘Part 2′ – where you show a mindmap brainstorming your blog’s goals first, with your blog topic/title as the central circle, and spokes and hubs drawn out from this circle, brainstorming your blog goals (relating to writing/content)

- Part 3 – where you show how you would draw a mindmap brainstorming ‘article topic hubs’, which flow from these ‘goal hubs’ (brainstormed in Part 2), and

Part 4 – a mindmap where you choose a couple of these ‘article topic hubs’ with ‘spokes’ to a brainstorm of ‘main point hubs’, which would show how you could structure these ideas into full articles

- with each Article Series showing your mindmap/screenshot like above.

Just a thought(??)

I already love this approach and article, but again, it would be great to see a ‘how to’ article series, to further illustrate your process of visually mindmapping and brainstorming your 1. blog goals, 2. related article topics, and 3. points that could be covered in each article.

(perhaps you could also do a series on mindmapping blog goals in terms of ‘increasing traffic’ and mindmapping on this too, for example! – would love to learn more on this using this approach)?

hint hint – more please(!), from a relatively newbie, but upcoming blogger!

Thanks again!
Meg

Hey again – silly me – I just clicked on your other link in the article above, and see that you already written 2 related posts, including one with a mindmap screenshot showing your brainstorm of the ‘structure’ of an article post – ie. writing about the ‘benefits ‘of using ‘bubbl.us’ as a tool, as you have here – so you have already done Part 4 of my request for an ‘article series’!

Then I found your other article, linked from that post, about generally being more creative and generating ideas, which contained some great ideas and resources!

In terms of an Article Tutorial Series suggested above (if you would like to help a poor newbie more!)

- the article about being more creative and generating ideas could be ‘Part 1′ perhaps?? your article above, could be ‘Part 2′ and your other article, which shows how you generated ‘article point ideas’, from your main post idea (or hub) – about writing a post on the use and benefits of bubbl.us. could be ‘Part 5 (original part 4 suggestion in my comment above).

I realize that you have linked them already as ‘related’ articles, but again, if you turn them into a ‘Featured Tutorial or How-to Article Series’, this would be WONDERFUL for easier navigation; to see the progression of the need for creativity; tools/resources; and then how you use this process in your own writing process

Again, just a thought?
(btw – I also tend to suffer from ‘idea-overload’, so any mindmapping tutorials you could bring us, would really help us (me!) focus!)
hehe

Thanks again, meg

(I wrote a comment on your other article about creativity and ideas too, with a link to 99 mindmapping and creativity resources but for some reason, it wouldn’t post – I keep getting treated as ‘spam’ – may try again later, email me if you are interested)

should we write when we dont find any topic? some say, just keep writing on whatever you can to keep frequency of posting regular. personally i dont write anything when i dont hav any substantial topic to write for my internet blog.
what do u think Merk? quality or regularity? obviously both are important. but which is more important?

sorry, i missed the spelling of ur name! its Mert not Merk.
as an indian i can say its quite unusual spelling for me
so no offence!

Aniroy1986 : no problem my friend Obviously quality is more important than quantity. But if you keep writing one quality post per week, you will not go anywhere. So you better write at least 3 good quality posts a week. This is also important in terms of SEO, and increasing your search engine traffic.

i will surely keep that in my mind.
thanks

Thanks Mert, I noticed you didn’t respond to my thoughts above (or to the comment on your related post), but yet you did to another comment here.

Guess you didn’t like the idea. I won’t write such long posts anymore, sorry! It was just a thought, clearly not poignant enough to respond to.

Good to see the new ‘articles’ page though, linking your series articles together more clearly.
Thanks.