I cannot remember when the first time I wanted to start writing a blog. I do know that it was probably years ago. In the past few months, I have been researching and reading and noting about how to start a blog. In the last two days, I have been bookmarking some of my favorite blogs. I have even discovered what RSS feeds are. I am still not 100% on those, but I am proud of myself for making the effort finally.

I guess blogs have been staring me in the face for quite some time, because EVERYONE reads, writes, or knows about blogs. Business people and even companies have blogs to promote and reach out. Others have blogs to give back to the web community great ideas or resources. Those are the ones I have been particularly interested in lately. The design community is intensely inspirational with their blog tutorials and guidance. I am even delving into some CSS and HTML how-to’s.

Okay, I better get to the point, because I am already getting new ideas of posts I want to write (They were right when they said once you start a blog, it is truly addicting.)

I have always been a writer. Unfortunately without an audience after graduating high school and moving cross country with my family, I have lost the motivation and desire to write. I tried a few months back to have my friends on MySpace to motivate me to write another story, but not a single one of them responded. Not even my best writing partner. Needless to say I was extremely upset for weeks. I still haven’t picked up a pen and paper to start that story. Maybe someday I will.

But for now…

I see a lot of postings about ‘how to start a blog.’ They are everywhere. However these are covering mostly the nitty gritty and background info. Such as, where to host your blog or where to get a free one, domain names, designing or choosing your theme, publishing and advertising your blog, etc.

One thing I really did not see covered in most of the posts I read was what to say. What should our first post be about? That was my biggest question.

A great tip I found (can’t remember where, when I do I will credit it here) was that if you are stuck about what to write, then just write headlines. Brainstorming headlines will help in two ways. First, you will create a list of future headlines you can write about when you are stuck again (saves you time). Second, you will hopefully find a topic that sparks an open article for you. Voila. Such a simple thing = such a miraculous epiphany.

I have a short list going, but it is a list all the same. Do you have anything in mind that you want to write about? Let me know. If you are stuck about what to write, take some tips from any comments left below. Or ask, and maybe you will get a response from fellow readers.