If you’ve taken the big step and started your very own blog, congratulations, however you might find it somewhat difficult to maintain your initial enthusiasm and motivation to keep writing articles.

There are a few ways in which you can address this properly. Firstly, it may be a case that your chosen topic is not exactly what you were most interested in.

Don’t starting thinking about throwing away your blog just yet, even I get sick of talking about cars or music or blogging, but every day or two I just cant help but to feel enthusiastic about writing something to do with cars, music or a post similar to this.

The key, I find, is to let your natural urges guide you, if the topic for which you are writing about is a struggle, as in, you have to force yourself to write, it’s not what you want to be doing.

Remember the whole point of writing a blog and going onwards to make a living from it is to write or discuss a topic for which you have an irrational obsession with.

A topic where you get motivated just by the thought of writing articles. Lots of people are not writers by default, they find the whole writing thing a bit of a chore,  I was like that too.

When I first started writing, I was writing poorly with horrid sentence structure and in some cases not making any sense at all. Of course my mild dyslexia didn’t help either.

My first few blogs were concerned with myself, my thoughts and the  music I was into at the time. I could write thousands of words at a time and that helped me develop my writing ability a bit more. I suggest if you’ve never done much writing to start by writing about a topic area which is easy for you to get the words out.

The second reason why you may be lacking motivation is not really knowing what to talk about, this again may be a case of the topic being hard to write about.

For example if you’ve decided to write a medical blog about advancements in medical science (a great topic for you doctors out there, I’d certainly be interested in reading it) but you’re not in the medical profession, you may find it slightly difficult to gather information.

Don’t worry though, you don’t need to be a professional in the topic of your blog to make a successful blog, all you need is motivation and determination. It’s also worth thinking about starting numerous blogs so that you can write about a few different topics to keep your mind from getting bored.

I also strongly suggest you don’t force yourself to write articles at certain times, or to make it a routine. This is about breaking routine and creating a new sense of personal freedom so use the inspiration of going out to a coffee shop or a great outdoor venue and writing on your laptop to get articles done.

As I write this I am sitting at my former university, listening to a trance podcast and typing away, there is no pressure on me to finish this right now (th0ugh I already know I will) and I came here to write about cars, but decided to write this instead.

Take the pressure away, write when you feel like it, don’t lose that intuition that tells you you have a great idea or topic to write about. Get on to it instantly, strike while the iron is hot as they say.

Of course if you go for weeks without updating your blog, there may be something intrinsically wrong with what you’ve chosen to do. If not and you’re certain that your topic is one of your passions in life then lets get serious for a minute.

If you feel guilty that you haven’t written in a while after having such enormous motivation at first and yet you still can’t get yourself to write something, I suggest a few ideas.

1. Work out why you’re not writing, is it because you lack personal discipline? Is it because you wrote for two or three weeks and didn’t make any money and then decided this whole idea was a bit silly?

Remember nothing is more motivating than writing about something you love, don’t expect to be making a living from your blog in a few weeks or months or even years in some cases. It’s about building up quality content and publishing frequently to create and then maintain an ever growing community of readers.

2. You got the ideas in your head but you can’t transfer them into words

This is rather common, you get a great idea for an article, you sit down to write it but you don’t get anywhere. It’s okay, it happens to all of us. This may have something to do with your writing skills or even how quickly you can type. If you’re not the best typist in the world, you can even start out by writing (yes, with pen and paper) the articles and then typing them out later. For most of us the medium in which we learnt to write creatively tends to be conditioned to our brain, so if you did all your creative writing back in the day on pen and paper, perhaps it’s worth giving that a go to get things started.

3. What’s the point of writing these article if no one is reading them?

This is the chicken and egg question in blogging format, what’s the point of writing articles on a site that has just started and not being read by anyone. Okay, let me give you a good explanation of how this works.

Firstly, you must put the content out into the ether, in this case being the internet, for it to be found. If the content doesn’t exist, it can’t be found and read. The content must come first, the readers will follow.  If you have this attitude in your head that because so few people visit your site it’s silly to write articles, you’re missing out on the big picture.

You’re writing these articles to share something you find interesting with everyone on the planet. Give the information out even if it looks as though no one is reading it and you will be amazed how in due course the readers will come, find articles that you’ve written months or years ago and find the content useful.

It will take time to get your blog to start attracting thousands of daily visitors. It also requires content for that to happen. Remember as with all entrepreneurial ventures, all the work (if you want to call it that) comes first with little reward but the rewards later on are significant.

I am happy to answer any other questions or problems you may be having with finding motivation, just write in the comments section and I’ll respond.

Hope this helps.