Case Study Of A Creative Strategy To Generate Blog Post Ideas

I don’t know what to write about today.

I purposely left my daily Medium article towards the end of my day instead of the very beginning in hopes that I’ll come up with an idea by the end of the day.

Unfortunately, I didn’t come up with any ideas.

I would have written another post about productivity as a blogger, but today was nothing particularly special.

I added a few pages to the first Wealthy Affiliate training that I am making and I wrote a 3,000-word post for Get Good At Badminton.

Not bad, but it’s not as clickbait worthy as something like writing 10,000 words in one day.

Anyways, I’m just typing. Typing in hopes that ideas come to my head.

It reminds me of the time when we had creative writing sessions in grade 9. This writer would come in and our only assignment was to write anything that popped to our heads for 10-minutes.

The goal was to never let the pencil up from the paper for more than even a second. The only time the pencil stopped touching the paper was to create a space between different words.

By the end of the 10–minutes, I remember the soreness in my wrist. I would give a huge sigh of relief and give my hands a big shake after finishing.

And I could see everyone around me doing the same thing.

Then the teacher would ask for volunteers to share the work that we have written. Most of us were too embarrassed to share what we wrote since nothing we wrote made any sense. Some of us probably had dark secrets written down as well.

The few that were courageous enough to share read journal writings that they themselves did not understand.

The train of thought was so out of place. People went from talking about pineapples to building houses within one sentence to reading then dancing within the next few.

One day I was flipping through old stuff and I found the journal that I was writing in and read my piece of creative writing.

Gosh, things really made no sense.

I was talking about the Canadian flag, then the maple leaf, then how my school’s flag maybe tasted like maple syrup, then about what the doors and walls in our school were made up of, then the clock, and so forth.

But I remember that despite the pain in our hands, the experience was fun.

That humanities class was the best class that I ever had.

From creative writing classes to mock trials of Napoleon the pig from Animal Farm, to mind-blowing philosophical discussions of current events, there were so many great experiences from that class.

Plus, we had no tests throughout the entire year and we got projects where we could truly express our freedom and creativity. It was in that class where I increased my love of stock investing. In fact, my project was to see how much money I could make with stocks and I managed to turn a $400,000 portfolio into $500,000 within a month.

I did get pretty lucky, though, although if I had held those stocks for even longer, I would have experienced even larger gains.

I was holding a bunch of tech stocks such as Nvidia and Apple, and if you have been following the stock market, you’ll know that Apple has been only pushing higher and Nvidia, although burst with the bubble of cryptocurrency, would still land me some great gains.

I think I sold Apple when it was $167 and Nvidia when it was $145. Something like that. Apple is now $250 and Nvidia is around $160.

But it was all virtual.

Anyways, I don’t think I want to make this post about stocks. I’m really not that experienced of an investor just yet ;).

After writing all of this babble about my creative writing class, I just got my idea!

One thing that I learned from those creative writing classes is that our heads are full of ideas.

We shouldn’t ever really be short of anything to write about because we’re always thinking about something.

Whether it’s about what you’re going to have for lunch, where you’re going, or what you want to do when you go home, there is something always floating around in your head.

Sometimes, all we have to do is unleash what we’re thinking about. So that’s what I did at the beginning of this post.

As I ejected the random thought bubbles from my head, new thoughts would come fill their place.

These thoughts can often be random, but sometimes you hit that gold nugget and your whole writing plan is created.

I didn’t plan to talk about generating ideas, but I guess I will.

I never really used tactics of writing anything that came to my mind to purposely generate ideas until now.

I just knew that there were times where I got on a roll and started being able to write super fast. I just experienced that now.

New ideas came to my head as I wrote about how I didn’t have any ideas at the moment. It is quite ironic and fascinating.

As you can see, I didn’t plan this out. Like really, there was no plan to do this.

I started writing without any title or topic.

Normally there is a plan. Usually, I would think of a topic that I really wanted to write about and then how I wanted to write about it. In most of my posts, I try to follow an epiphany bridge script that I learned from Expert Secrets.

Today’s different. I didn’t have anything that I wanted to write about.

Perhaps I might start doing this a lot more. I might start every post just writing about random things that I’m thinking about or happened during the day.

I can write a lot more with ease and it’s fun!

But now that I know I want to talk about generating ideas, it’s time to talk about some more actionable strategies that you and I could potentially implement into our daily workdays.

There are only two places I’m going to allow myself to freely write about anything that comes to mind; Medium and my personal for fun activities.

For my other blogs, I have locked myself in a tone that’s informative. I don’t always want to be talking about random stuff unless it’s relevant to the post.

I think many of you might be in the same dilemma. But there is a strategy that I’m coming up with right now that could allow us to come up with more ideas all the time.

One thing that I realize right now is that all the ideas I put on paper are potential topics for different posts.

For example, I wrote about stock investing. Well, in another post I could focus more on stock investing and my personal journey and then link it back here for blogging internal linking purposes.

I wrote about the philosophical discussions we had during my grade 9 year. I could go more in-depth on that too.

Or even something like flipping through old stuff. I could potentially make a post detailing the changes I have gone through.

In fact, that’s a great idea. Sometime in the future, maybe a few months later, I should go back through all my posts and then write about how things have changed for me.

Each post has a plethora of ideas that we can expand into full articles. So now here’s the actionable strategy.

Have a place to freely write down everything that goes on in your head. Read through what you have and note down the different things you wrote that can be expanded into other valuable articles.

And there you go, an easy idea generator.

Now that I think of this, there is no way that I should ever be running out of things to write.

It doesn’t have to be a piece of creative writing to find ideas in. The more logically planned out blog posts have just as many ideas in them as well.

Well actually, now I realize that I did learn about this strategy in the Wealthy Affiliate training.

One of Kyle from WA’s strategy was to look at old blog posts and build new content ideas through what was already written and then link back to them.

I still like the idea of creative writing to generate more ideas, though, especially as my form on Medium is more of a personal outlook into my life rather than a full-on informative post.

So I’m definitely going to incorporate more of this creative writing style whenever I need it on Medium.

I think I’m going to stop here for today though as it’s been a long day and I’m getting tired.

Today has been a good day. A 3,000-word post, a bit of work done on my Wealthy Affiliate training, my part-time job, and a Medium post.

I’m going to make sure that I get just as much done for tomorrow. I’ll see everyone later!